RE: Problem with Croatian special characters in check-in notes in Team Coding+TFS

Ana,
I have been following the posts on this issue over on the MSDN groups.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsversioncontrol/thread/5ab0bfe7-9c76-485f-9760-7a5a4860a7b9

The issue is that MSSCCI dll was written to only accept single byte characters.

P Kelley from MSFT has suggested a hack on our end to fix the issue, in addition to changing the system code page. While this could work, we would be coding for backward compatibility, and for a very specific scenario.

I think a better approach would be to let the MSCCI Check in window handle the comments , instead of the Team Coding dialog. That way there is no ambiguity about encoding. This is how Toad handles it in the file  Version Control System Integration module. I have added this to my list for the beta cycle. We have been doing some refactoring on Team Coding so it may be a few beta builds before I implement it.

In the meantime, one work around would be to re-paste the comment in to the MSSCCI Check in dialog, which should open when the user checks in an object (at least it does on my machine ☺ )


Please let me know if this would work.

Stephen

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ana Roje Ivancic
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 10:53 AM
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Subject: [toad] Problem with Croatian special characters in check-in notes in Team Coding+TFS [1 Attachment]


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Hello,

The environment we set up at a client's site a year ago includes versioning Oracle DBs using Toad, Team Coding and TFS2010. They are using MSSCCI provider and Toad 10.6.

Recently we discovered a very strange problem when using Croatian special characters in check-in notes.
Repro steps:

  1.  The user uses special characters in the Team Coding check-in dialog
  2.  The check in action is successful
  3.  The changeset is viewed in Visual Studio.
Error: Croatian characters are not displayed properly - see attached picture.

The  installation was done by the book and no special settings in terms of encoding were set (at last we are not aware of setting any).

Does anybody have an idea where to start looking for the problem?
Encoding in Toad /Oracle /Team Coding?
Encoding in TFS?
Regional settings?

Thank you very much in advance,
Cheers, Ana