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Re: svn client UTF conversion errors

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-08-22 20:51:22 CEST

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> Sorry, we don't have real UTF-8 support on Windows, because apr-iconv
> is useless there. I still think APR-util should support GNU libiconv
> on Windows.

Yes, see issue

   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=872

But also...

Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
>I built the svn client myself because I needed the new fs support and
>tried it out but I keep on getting the following error (with svn
>help, co, update, etc):
>
>$ svn help
>d:\dev\subversion\subversion\libsvn_subr\utf.c:245: (apr_err=22,
>src_err=0)
>svn: Invalid argument
>svn: Non-ascii character (code 204) detected, and unable to convert
>to UTF-8.
>
>This problem occurs with the win32 debug version of svn. Anyone have
>an idea about what is going wrong? Thanks!

...Hmmm. I had thought the partial resolution of

   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=807

in revision 2805 would mean that your symptoms above would be much
less drastic. It should convert most of the message, and just print
unconvertible characters as special codes; but apparently, it's
behaving in the pre-2805 way, simply giving up on the whole message.

Brent, can you take a look at those issues and at rev 2805, and see if
you can figure out why Windows isn't doing the softer failure? (It's
just that Mike and I are busy rolling 0.14.2 right now...)

-Karl

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