Re: svn log behaves strangely when characters cannot be represented in the local charset

On 2008-02-18 13:05:06 +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> That log message is in UTF-8, which is perfectly OK.

Yes, in the repository, the log message is in UTF-8. But this isn't
the problem.

> Subversion will convert that to you locale's encoding if it can; if
> not, it will "transliterate" (but not really; we need a real
> transliterating iconv).

No, transliterating does not work with svn (though iconv is OK):

vin:~tmp/wc> svn log
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r2 | vlefevre | 2008-02-18 12:27:53 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

Test caract?\195?\168re non ISO-8859-1: ?\226?\134?\146

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r1 | vlefevre | 2008-02-13 14:52:30 +0100 (Wed, 13 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

Added aé.

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vin:~tmp/wc> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 svn log | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1//TRANSLIT
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r2 | vlefevre | 2008-02-18 12:27:53 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

Test caractère non ISO-8859-1: ->

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r1 | vlefevre | 2008-02-13 14:52:30 +0100 (Wed, 13 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

Added aé.

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See the difference?

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