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Just added in a checkin from Kiln to a case which included a UK pound sign (£) but it is rendered in the "show checkins" pop up as a diamond with a question mark in it.

Originally posted in the fogbugz forum: http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/4817/uk-pound-signs-are-showing-up-funny-in-checkin-list

Screenshots as requested: TortoiseHG version of the message Kiln output of the same message

I can recreate this on my machine doing the following:

  • Create a new text file
  • Add it to your HG repos
  • Commit with message "Testing out £'s in messages"
  • Push to Kiln
  • Check repos explorer in TortoiseHG and message appears as it should
  • Check in Kiln and pound sign is encoded as blue diamond question mark as show in screenshots

If it helps I'm in the UK (running XP Pro SP3) as is our server (IIS7, Win2008 I believe). Checked in Chrome 5 and Firefox 3.5 with same results.

If you need any settings let me know where to find them and I'll get you what I can.

Cheers

Pete

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Thanks Pete. I've opened a case and we'll look into it. – Tyler Hicks-Wright♦ Sep 24 2010 at 12:29
What did you use to write the commit message? – Tyler Hicks-Wright♦ Sep 24 2010 at 19:30
TortoiseHG I believe, nothing fancy or exotic – Pete Duncanson Sep 27 2010 at 13:51
1 
 Pete, Would you mind including a link to a screenshot? We are having some trouble hunting this down and that would be very helpful. – Sam Vanderpol♦ Sep 29 2010 at 21:30
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 Screen shots added as requested, hope they help – Pete Duncanson Sep 30 2010 at 13:37
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Pete,

We have been hunting this for a while now and can't seem to reproduce it anywhere. Are you using an older version of Tortoise? Right now we are thinking this is either Windows not having the correct encoding set or possibly a problem having to do with Tortoise being out of date.

UPDATE:

This has been hunted down.

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I actually just hunted this down. I think it has something to do with the licensed Kiln backend. A case is open and we are working on a fix. – Sam Vanderpol♦ Sep 30 2010 at 19:02
Maybe I should have been clearer that I'm a self hoster of Kiln and not an on-demander. Glad you found it though. – Pete Duncanson Oct 1 2010 at 11:27
It was actually somewhat clear from your description but it was unexpected that this behavior would be different for licensed vs. OD. Thank you again for your report! – Sam Vanderpol♦ Oct 1 2010 at 14:25
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Could this be the same problem as Question 3734? The pound sign is encoded "163" in ISO 8859-1, which means that it might get converted on output.

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