UTF-8 character encoding in SVN log messages

[Thomas Arildsen]

I have set my Subversion up to open log messages for editing in emacs
using emacsclient. It works fine, but I get errors when I just save the
buffer CTRL-X S and quit it. It works fine, if I use CTRL-X RET F to
specify the buffer's character endcoding to utf-8 before saving and
quitting.
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?

Thomas Arildsen

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[Peter Dyballa]

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...

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[Thomas Arildsen]

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
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[Tim X]

Thomas Arildsen <tha.es...@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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