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RE: Issue with directory name that includes dash like " - " ...
From: |
Rick Genter |
Subject: |
RE: Issue with directory name that includes dash like " - " ... |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:01:27 -0400 |
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden
> On Behalf Of Larry Jones
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:17 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Issue with directory name that includes dash
> like " - " ...
>
> address@hidden writes:
> >
> > During this operation, we noticed that whenever we had a directory
> > name that had a space-dash-space (" - ") in it, the
> checkout operation
> > used to modify it to space-question-space (" ? ")
>
> What versions of CVS are you running? (Do ``cvs version'' in the
> checked-out directory to find out for sure.)
>
> I am not able to reproduce your problem, so it may be a Red Hat
> modification (probably to avoid the dash in the name being
> misinterpreted as the start of a command option).
I believe another possibility is that the "dash" wasn't not an ASCII
hyphen (0x2D) but a non-ASCII character that looks like a hyphen
(extended ASCII 0xC4, Unicode 0x2010), and that the local system's
encoding doesn't allow for such characters.
--
Rick Genter
Principal Software Engineer
Silverlink Communications