[cvsnt] Re: loginfo and german umlauts

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Jan 29 17:22:21 GMT 2004


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Zsolt Koppany wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the loginfo script can read the entered commit comment from "stdin". It
> works, however I don't get the entered German Umlauts correctly. The server
> is Linux and the client Windows (with eclipse). Because I have to store the
> entered commit comment how can I get the german umlauts correctly and which
> encoding should I use.
> 
CVS doesn't do anything with the commit comment except store it and 
therefore encodings are irrelevant to it.  As long as the client you 
look at the log information with is using the same codepage as the 
client that posted it, it'll make sense.

Tony




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