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Re: svn: Can't recode string

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2004-10-19 03:14:29 CEST

On Monday 18 October 2004 11:12, Patrick Smears wrote:
[snip]
> > LC_ALL=
> > root@dienstag szabolcs # svn import /home/szabolcs/dokumenteBCK/
> > file:///mnt/BarakudaBeta/svnrepository/dokumente
> >
> > Log message unchanged or not specified
> > a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit
> > c
> > svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> > (hex: 4b 75 6e 73 74 68)
> > followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> > (hex: e4 6e 64 6c)
>
> This indicates that Subversion has found some data that is not valid
> UTF-8. In this instance, the text appears to be 'Kunsth{a-umlaut}ndl',
> but encoded in ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8.
>
> Perhaps changing to a locale based on ISO-8859-1 will allow you to
> proceed?

Nope. Subversion doesn't care about the encoding of file contents.
However, it does care about the log message. If you're using a UTF-8
locale, the log message should be valid UTF-8 as well.

-John

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