[Qgis-developer] UTF-8 Filenames, SVN, Qt and Macs

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Tom

Thanks for the clarification - I was trying to find a decent resource
that explains the issue since I ran int the problem when testing on
mac to as did others on IRC. How have you defined LC_CTYPE? I tried
adding to my bash_profile but still had some issues. I was able to
skirt the issues by exporting LC_CTYPE in the same line as my svn
checkout or make comand.

Regards

Tim

2007/12/10, Tom Elwertowski <telwertowski at comcast.net>:
> Hi all (especially Mac builders),
>
> Since a UTF-8 filename was recently added to svn and the filename is
> also read as text from the AUTHORS file, here are some Mac notes
> regarding the use of UTF-8 filenames and text.
>
> 1. Mac users need to define LC_CTYPE to use svn with UTF-8 filenames.
> 2. Developers should call setCodec("UTF-8") when reading UTF-8 content
> using QTextStream.
>
> If LC_CTYPE has not been defined, you will encounter the error:
>
> svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
>
> To get past this, define the following (locale can vary):
>
> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> There are still some problems but I think they are due to the bash shell
> distributed with OS X 10.4. Installing a newer one is rumored to help
> but you can also just ignore the following:
>
> 'ls' will display ?? for each UTF-8 character.
>
> 'svn status' will respond with both a '!" (file is missing) and '?'
> (extra file is present) for any file with a UTF-8 filename. This results
> in a 'M' (modified) in the version number even when nothing is modified.
>
> Since the AUTHORS file also contains UTF-8, setCodec("UTF-8") must be
> called for a QTextStream reading the file. Linux reads UTF-8 by default
> but the Mac does not.
>
> Tom
>
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