<div dir="ltr"><div><div>That's not good. I think that a large number of GNU/Linux users don't have LANG set to UTF8. I didn't until a few days ago. (After switching from bash to fish I forgot to set it, and didn't notice for half a year. It took me years before I set it when I was using bash too.)<br><br></div><div>I think it's better if I just delete these files to avoid trouble; probably noone but me will make use of them.<br></div><div><br></div>I see git doesn't have a problem cloning the repo without LANG set, presumably it doesn't attempt conversion, despite the fact that git is apparently UTF8 internally, not agnostic about encoding. However, I see that the mingw version of git does convert filenames from UTF8 to UTF16; <a href="https://github.com/git/git/commit/1c950a594c40db7a946616cbc6cc5f9e25926a20" target="_blank">https://github.com/git/git/com<wbr>mit/1c950a594c40db7a946616cbc6<wbr>cc5f9e25926a20</a><br></div>So I can check them into a git branch instead.<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2016 at 06:16, James Paige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Cron Daemon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:root@westcoastaerospace.com" target="_blank">root@westcoastaerospace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:<br>
svn: wip/testgame/unicodetest/?\195<wbr>?\128A?\204?\128?\195?\129A?\2<wbr>04?\129?\195?\130A?\204?\130?\<wbr>195?\131A?\204?\131?\195?\132A<wbr>?\204?\136?\195?\133A?\204?\13<wbr>8?\195?\135C?\204?\167?\195?\1<wbr>36E?\204?\128?\195?\137E?\204?<wbr>\129?\195?\138E?\204?\130?\195<wbr>?\139E?\204?\136?\195?\140I?\2<wbr>04?\128?\195?\141I?\204?\129?\<wbr>195?\142I?\204?\130?\195?\143I<wbr>?\204?\136?\195?\145N?\204?\13<wbr>1?\195?\146O?\204?\128?\195?\<wbr>147O?\204?\129?\195?\148O?\204<wbr>?\130?\195?\149O?\204?\131.txt<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The svn working copy on gilgamesh that is used for nightly linux builds was broken by the unicode filenames<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">At first I thought this was because gilgamesh had an old version of the svn client (which was somewhat silly, because gilgamesh is also the svn server)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I upgraded gilgamesh to the latest version of Debian.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I then realized that didn't fix the problem, and that my $LANG is un-set for some silly reason.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Once I fixed that, it was fine.<br><br>---<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">James<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div>
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