CVS migration help

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Thomas Manson wrote:
> in cvs2svn option file :
>  
> # You might want to be especially strict when converting filenames to
> # unicode (e.g., maybe not specify a fallback_encoding).
> ctx.cvs_filename_decoder = CVSTextDecoder(
>     [
>         'latin1',
>         #'utf8',
>         #'ascii',
>         ],
>     fallback_encoding='ascii'
>     )
> 
> I've added the ppa repositiory for ubuntu apt-get and update to 1.7.0.1
> <http://1.7.0.1> and will try again.
> Thomas
>  

I'll just mention that 'latin1' can never fail to decode a string. All
8-bit bytestrings have a valid Unicode decode from 'latin1', though
sometimes they will involve control characters. (Put another way,
'latin1' looks at one character at a time, and has all 256 mappings =>
unicode defined.)

UTF-8 can sometimes fail, because it uses multiple characters. Thus
every possible string is not valid in UTF-8.

ASCII can fail because it cannot map characters with the 8th bit set
(though I'll mention that anything in ASCII is identical in UTF-8).

John
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