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Re: Non-ASCII user names when "svn" protocol is used.

From: Mark Phippard <markp_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2006-03-08 19:19:38 CET

jimblandy@gmail.com wrote on 03/08/2006 12:55:51 PM:

> On 3/8/06, Alexander Kitaev <alex@tmate.org> wrote:
> > So am I understand correctly that Subversion delevelopers consider
this is a
> > feature, rather then a bug? I have no personal opinion on that so far,
> > though creating UTF-8 encoded files is usually not as easy as
system-encoded
> > ones and it is not obvious that is should be done that way for the
first
> > time user, so usual use case will be - create system-encoded passwd
file,
> > get an error, guess that it should be UTF-8 encoded, encode the file.
> >
> > May be comment on that should be put into the passwd file and
configuration
> > files?
>
> I'm not sure whether it's deliberate or an omission. I'd guess it's
> the latter; it would make sense to me if Subversion read its
> configuration files in the system locale.
>
> If the current behavior is deliberate, the Subversion book doesn't
> make any mention of it.

Just as a reminder, Philip Martin started up a theoretical discussion on
this topic just a week ago:

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-03/0153.shtml

Mark

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