Mac OS X umlaut problem
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:39 pm
Hi,
after struggling for about three days I'm at a loss as to how to solve this problem:
* we are running an svn server for development purposes, no problem.
* we set up another project on the machine for administrative purposes, no problem either.
* we entered a lot of files into it from a windows box - all rigth so far.
* here comes the problem: when checking out repository content to a mac os x client, all files/directories with german "Umlaute" in it (ä=ä, ö=ö etc) show up twice:
* once as a missing file that needs checkout/update
* once as a new file that needs adding
Research on the topic revealed that there is a problem with the way OS X handles unicode characters (or, more abstract, with differences in the way that WIN/Unix/OS X handles them).
Has anyone encountered the problem? I could reproduce it in two commandline svn clients, in svnX and right now in syncro svn.
Is there a known solution (other than buying a windows notebook or renaming all umlaut files)?
Thanks,
Bernd-Christoph
after struggling for about three days I'm at a loss as to how to solve this problem:
* we are running an svn server for development purposes, no problem.
* we set up another project on the machine for administrative purposes, no problem either.
* we entered a lot of files into it from a windows box - all rigth so far.
* here comes the problem: when checking out repository content to a mac os x client, all files/directories with german "Umlaute" in it (ä=ä, ö=ö etc) show up twice:
* once as a missing file that needs checkout/update
* once as a new file that needs adding
Research on the topic revealed that there is a problem with the way OS X handles unicode characters (or, more abstract, with differences in the way that WIN/Unix/OS X handles them).
Has anyone encountered the problem? I could reproduce it in two commandline svn clients, in svnX and right now in syncro svn.
Is there a known solution (other than buying a windows notebook or renaming all umlaut files)?
Thanks,
Bernd-Christoph