On 16.01.2012 19:45, Garret Wilson wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 10:09 AM, Stefan Küng wrote:
>>
>>
>> the test is done in libsvn_subr\properties.c, function svn_prop_name_is_valid():
>>
>> svn_boolean_t
>> svn_prop_name_is_valid(const char *prop_name) ...
>
> That's enlightening. So my take away from this is:
>
> * Subversion's "official" code requires property names to be a
> (alpha/colon/underscore) character followed by any number of
> (alpha/number/minus/dot/colon/underscore) characters.
> * This code prevents UTF-8-encoded property names.
> * This requirement doesn't seem to be documented anywhere except
> within the source code, so it's no surprise that other clients
> (including the official "SVN+DAV" client) implement it differently.
>
> As UTF-8-encoded property names are stored just fine by other clients
> (and even read properly by TortoiseSVN and everything else), this
> limitation seems arbitrary. (It's also a shame---I thought the world had
> moved beyond ASCII and embraced UTF-8/Unicode years ago.)
>
> If I knew that it would help anything, I would gladly volunteer to
> update the documentation, update the source code, or whatever else it
> would take to get this restriction removed. However, since in my
> experience the Subversion users list doesn't even bother responding to
> issues like this, I would probably be wasting my time---I doubt anyone
> would even discuss it. I suppose I'll just continue to use SVNKit until
> this eventually breaks, then I'll just be forced to write my own
> versioning system. :(
>
> Stefan, thank you very much for your time in helping me get to the
> bottom of this---disappointing though the answer may be.
If you don't get an answer to such developer related questions, post to
the dev list instead. I'm sure you'll get an answer there.
And now that you know what the issue is including the sourcecode, where
it is you should mention that as well.
Stefan
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