Hello,
I've investigated an issue with non-ASCII user names (those that are
multibyte encoded in UTF-8) and "svn" protocol. Finally I found that sending
user name in UTF-8 will doesn't work (svnserve reports "username not found")
unless username in conf/passwd file is also UTF-8 encoded, because when user
name is read from the config file by svnserve it is not converted to UTF-8
string and thus doesn't match user name string sent by the client.
As far as I understand passwd file, as well as other configuration files are
usually edited with editors that saves files in system encoding, not UTF-8.
Does it makes sense to change code that reads passwd file to convert user
names and passwords to UTF-8, before returning them to the caller? Am I
understand correctly that right now non-ASCII user names may only be used
when passwd file contains user name in UTF-8?
I was not able to use non-ASCII user name with command line at all (it was
saying that character is not convertable to UTF8), but it is probably
because there is something wrong with my system setup.
Alexander Kitaev,
TMate Software,
http://tmate.org/
http://jetbrains.com/tmate/
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Received on Wed Mar 8 12:54:25 2006