Re: UTF-8 character encoding in SVN log messages

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Thomas Arildsen <tha.es-aau-dk@spamgourmet.com> writes:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:02:50 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> Am 10.12.2009 um 14:24 schrieb Thomas Arildsen:
>> 
>>> Can I in some way configure Emacs/Subversion to open the log message
>>> buffer to be saved with utf-8 encoding by default? For example by a
>>> command line parameter to emacsclient?
>> 
>> 
>> The latter does not work, which you can check by invoking emacsclient
>> with --help. The former might work with
>> 
>> 	(prefer-coding-system	'utf-8-unix)
>> 
>> in your init file. Environment variables like LC_CTYPE set to an UTF-8
>> value should provoke the preferred use of UTF-8. Except you have set
>> some non-UTF-8 language or whatever environment...
>> 
>
> Thanks, your suggestion seems to have solved the issue.
>
> Thomas Arildsen

FYI From memory, there is a config setting you can put in your
~/.subversion/config file that also sets the encoding used in change
logs. Normally, this would (I think( default to what the setting is on
the local system i.e. LANG= and LC_* etc. However, if this is set to
something like iso8859-1 and you set/force emacs to use UTF-8, you may
get unwanted/unnecessary conversions that could lead to mixed encoding
in the file (especially if you sometimes use other tools with svn).

Tim


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