Re: [PATCH v3] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option

> 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 )

> 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 ?