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

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2008-02-18 13:05:06 +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> 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):
>

Please don't be deliberately obtuse. We don't do transliteration because
we don't try to determine if the provided iconv supports it. What you
see is deliberate; not nice and sexy, but deliberate and not a bug.

> some
> kind of warning or other way to inform the user would be useful, because
> some information is lost after a transliteration.

So what? Who cares about "some information lost" in a log message
printed to the console? If you're wrapping the svn command-line client
and find that to be a problem, use "svn log --xml".

Or use an UTF-8 locale.

-- Brane

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Received on 2008-02-18 15:49:50 CET