Unnecessary path encoding in svnserve

Hi,

I'm using svnserve of 1.1.0 RC1 on BSD/OS and use it from Japanese
Windows client (svn.exe and TortoiseSVN). It works fine except treating
japanese kanji named directory.

When failed, we (client) get strange error message:

> [c:\temp\test]svn ci -m "" .
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Can't recode string

I inspected svnserve source code and found the fail point in
serve.c::find_repos(). It encodes requested repository path (utf-8) into
local encoding (apr-encoding) only for using apr_filepath_merge(). So it
limits directory name in repository with server side charset.

Is it intended?

For example, on our environment (BSD/OS 4.0.1), apr_os_locale_charset()
returns "iso-8859-1", thus it cannot handle japanese characters for
directory name.

--- Regards,
 Shun-ichi Goto <gotoh@taiyo.co.jp>
   R&D Group, TAIYO Corp., Tokyo, JAPAN

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Received on Tue Aug 3 15:50:15 2004