Re: AW: Spurious characters in german error text

On 07.05.2014 17:50, Niemann, Hartmut wrote:
>> Von: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com]
>>
>> On 05.05.2014 13:11, Niemann, Hartmut wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> An update command failed with the following error message:
>>>
>>> „Command: Update
>>>
>>> Error: Die vorhergehende Operation wurde nicht abgeschlossen; Starten
>>> Sie »svn
>>>
>>> Error: cleanup« falls sie unterbrochen wurde
>>>
>>> Error: Please execute the 'Cleanup' command.
>>>
>>> Completed!“
>>>
>>> TortoiseSVN 1.8.6, Build 25419 - 64 Bit , 2014/04/12 11:40:48
>>>
>>> The command line client gives me the english message
>>>
>>> “svn: E155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if
>>> it was interrupted”
>>>
>>> Do the spurious A-with-HAT characters before the quotation marks
>>> belong to the tortoise part or to the base subversion?
>>>
>>> Who could fix that?
>>
>> That translated text is from the svn library and has to be fixed there.
>> Not sure if the svn team actually uses it, but there's a web
>> translation setup here:
>> https://translate.apache.org/projects/Subversion/
>>
>> Stefan
>
> I found the translation in
> https://translate.apache.org/export/Subversion/de/de.po
> (first hit when searching for "cleanup"),
> and if I view it with Internet Explorer and encoding "westeuropaeisch (windows)", i.e. ansi / iso5589-15 (?),
> I see the A-with-hat symbols, when I switch to "utf-8", everything looks OK.
>
> Is it possible that Tortoise SVN receives a string from the svn library and treats it as
> windows/ansi encoded, but should treat it as UTF-8?
> (With normal German text you would not see a difference between UTF-8 and ansi encoding)

That shouldn't happen: we set up gettext properly to return utf-8
encoded strings with the call:
bind_textdomain_codeset("subversion", "UTF-8");

But I'll do some more checking...

Stefan

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