Re: [website-dev] native language webcontent developers please review your filenames for invalid non UTF-8 characters

Hi,

On 22.11.2010 17:22, Bernd Eilers wrote:
>
>
> Hi WebContent developers and esp. those from native language projects!
>
> I recently stumbled over a few filenames in OpenOffice.org's webcontent
> which have invalid non-UTF-8 characters in their filenames.

Do you have examples?

Andrea's pattern seems to be a bit broad. It would be great if we could 
point at the problematic files...

Greetings
Stefan


> The character encoding to be used for webconent checked into
> OpenOffice.org´s webcontent repository is UTF-8. Please make sure to use
> an UTF-8 locale when checking in files with non-us-AscII chars. For
> example if you are in france and are using some Unix OS set
> LANG=fr.UTF-8 and not LANG=fr.ISO8859-15. GUI CVS Clients used on
> Windows often allow to specify the encoding to be used explicitly.
>
> Filenames with other encodings will not work and what is even worse they
> do create a big problem when moving OpenOffice.org to the new kenai
> based infrastructure.
> While CVS does not care much about invalid chars in filenames subversion
> which will be used on the new infrastructure does treat those filenames
> as errornous and as a result will not import the whole project at all.
>
> Could native language projects webcontent developers please review their
> webcontent and change anything that is currently not UTF-8 compliant.
> And that means not only to copy the broken files to new valid ones but
> also deleting the broken filenames from the CVS repository!
>
> For example there are 2 broken directory names in
> fr/www/Documentation/Gallery starting with the letters "fl" and than
> some non UTF-8 encoded char.
>
> Kind regards,
> Bernd Eilers
>
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