On 01 Sep 2015, at 16:35, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2015-09-01 14.47, Lars Schneider wrote: >>>> +test_expect_success 'Create a repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths' ' >>>>>> + cd "$cli" && >>>>>> + >>>>>> + ISO8859="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED" | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-1)" && >>>>>> + >"$ISO8859" && >>>>>> + p4 add "$ISO8859" && >>>>>> + p4 submit -d "test commit" >>>>>> +' >>>> Sorry for being persistant, >>>> but you can't create files with names that are ISO-8859-1 encoded under Mac OS, >>>> we end up like this: >>>> >>>> a-%E4_o-%F6_u-%FC.txt >> You are right. However, my goal is not to create a file with ISO-8859-1 characters in Mac OS. My goal is to create this file in Perforce and this approach seems to work. >> >>>> > But this line creates a file, doesn't it ? >> "$ISO8859" && > > (I just wonder how this works on you machine ) I tested it on OS X (HPFS) and Linux (ext4). Can you reproduce problems on your machine? If yes, what is your OS/filesystem? > And, may be, we could fill the file with some content, to be double-sure that > the file name conversion works with Perforce ? > > like > echo content >"$ISO8859" && > > and test the content later ? OK, I will add this. Thanks, Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html