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Re: Safe data followed by non-ascii byte xxx

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 01:29:52 -0500

On Apr 1, 2008, at 09:06, <mathieu.vanbelle_at_recordgroup.be>
<mathieu.vanbelle_at_recordgroup.be> wrote:

> I already found several mails related to this error, but no
> solution yet.
>
> I'm using Subversion 1.4.6 ; the server is a Linux Red Hat server,
> while the clients are HP-UX 11.23 servers.
> From the Linux server everything's work as expected ; in
> particular, I'm able to insert filename with special characters
> like 'é' (Latin Small Letter E Acute) into the repository. I'm also
> able to commit with a message containing such characters.
>
> But from the HP-UX server, if I do a 'svn log' on this filename for
> instance, I receive the following error (repository test, filename
> 'spécial') :
>
> > svn log svn://10.10.10.10/test/spécial
> svn: Safe data 'svn://10.10.10.10/test/sp' was followed by non-
> ASCII byte 233: unable to convert to/from UTF-8
>
> Note that 'é' is 233 in ISO-8859 ; in UTF-8 it should be something
> like 195 169. Depending on the operation I do (data from client to
> server, or from server to client - for instance a checkout), the
> non-ascii byte is sometimes 233, sometimes 195.
>
> So this seems to be linked to a conversion problem from the locale
> to UTF-8.
> I've tried to compile svn 'with-apr-iconv', but this has no effect
> (but chatr on svn does not show the apr-iconv library, and same
> thing for the svn libraries ; it appears I'm not able to compile
> svn using apr-iconv).
>
> I've also tried with all available locales exported in LANG and/or
> LC_ALL, including UTF-8.
>
> (The error comes from the 'utf.c' source, in check_non_ascii ; but
> I guess this is only a consequence of a bad conversion earlier,
> maybe in a call to apr_xlate_conv_buffer in function
> convert_to_stringbuf (?).)
>
>
> What's wrong ?
>

I would think you need to properly percent-encode the filename before
putting it in the URL, e.g.

svn log svn://10.10.10.10/test/sp%C3%A9cial

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