Re: International Characters & Subversion 1.1.0 Problems

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Erich Enke wrote:

> Thinking that all might now be running smoothly, I try operations on
> percent'ed filenames. I can `svn add G%E4steBuch` just fine. I can
> `svn ci` it. If I `svn ls` it directly (in the repository, specifying
> even the filename), though, I get 'non-existent in that revision'.
> Trying the merge-commit, I get 'File not found' for the hex sequence 47
> e4 73 74 65 (I had to run it through hexdump to see what that character
> was (it interpreted 'e4 73' as a box of some sort)) ... which, of
> course, is the 0xe4 version of G%E4steBuch.
>
> That is to say, filenames with percents still seem to be buggy. This
> should be reproducible. Just touch a file as 'G%E4steBuch', add it,
> commit it, then try ls'ing it, mv'ing it, rm'ing it, merging it into
> another branch. See if you have any problems.

I've tried this (svn ls <url-to-file-with-accents> with subversion 1.0.8
on FC2, and I get the same results as you. I agree that this is a bug. I
believe the command

   svn ls $REPOS/G%E4steBuch

should list the file G{a-umlaut}steBuch, rather than giving a "can't
recode string" error.

Patrick

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