[PATCH stable v2] convert: use original local encoding when converting from Perforce
Eugene Baranov
eug.baranov at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 12:13:15 CDT 2015
I indeed tried setting P4CHARSET to utf8 and it fails since my server
isn't running in "unicode mode".
Also tried setting P4COMMANDCHARSET
(http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/P4COMMANDCHARSET.html)
but that didn't do anything at all.
On 23 July 2015 at 16:49, Frank Kingswood
<frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/07/15 16:14, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 23:18 +0100, Eugene Baranov wrote:
>>>
>>> My 'active code page' is 850, but p4 indeed generates 1252-encoded text.
>>>
>>> I've tried to 'convince' p4 to output in UTF-8, but so far I haven't
>>> figured out how.
>>
>> This suggest the magic is to set P4CHARSET=utf8. And there also appears
>> to be a -C switch to force the encoding:
>>
>> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/user/i18nnotes.txt
>
> Not a lot of time to think about this today, sorry.
>
> I think setting P4CHARSET to any value at all fails unless the p4 server is
> running in "unicode mode", so that may not be useful. The help has this
> unhelpful paragraph:
>
> If P4CHARSET is not set explicitly when connecting to a Unicode mode
> server, a default charset will be chosen based on the client's
> platform and/or code page.
>
> Frank
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