[TxMt] Bundle items, Unicode & SVN

[Allan Odgaard]

On 7/6/2006, at 13:38, thomas Aylott wrote:

> Using crazy characters in the names can potentially upset subversion.

It can? This is with LC_CTYPE set correctly? How does the problems  
manifest themselves?

We do use crazy glyphs in the default bundle items.

> and since my svn server runs on a linux box, it can get even more  
> upset when i try to do a checkout there.

hmm… I do not know what the de facto encoding for Linux file systems  
are. I could imagine that there is still a lot of stuff stuck with  
latin-1 or just “8 bit clean, but let’s show it as ASCII.”

> SO
>
> Can we change the way it makes the actual file system file names to
> not use crazy characters even though they are in the names of  
> bundle items themselves?

I actually did consider to do ASCII transliteration, because of all  
those who do a svn checkout w/o reading all the steps first ;) but  
then I also think that it’s a shame to cater to the common  
denominator, when Apple actually made our file system work with all  
unicode code points!

> Personally, i think it should be the default behavior, but it could  
> just as easily be done as a command.

I could maybe do it as a hidden option -- no sane Mac system should  
give a problem with this.