Unicode, dump files, and file names

I'm assisting with development of the vss2svn conversion program for
converting a Visual Source Safe repository to a Subversion dump file.

<http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/>

In my VSS repo I have some source files that include character 0x85
(ellipsis) in the name. A typical filename is "Move to Point...-D.bmp",
where the "..." is the single-byte CP1252 character 0x85.

<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT>

vss2svn extracts the filename from CP1252-encoded VSS repository DB and
writes it to a UTF-8-encoded XML file.

What should we put in the dump file for the file name? Should it be
UTF-8-encoded? What does "svnadmin load" expect? (I'm seeing gibberish in
the filename in the resulting WC, and I suspect that double-encoding is
happening somewhere in the conversion process.)

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Received on Sat Jul 29 04:30:02 2006