Re: svn: Can't recode string

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, John Szakmeister wrote:

> > > 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.

No - but it does care about the encoding of the file *names*, as discussed
on this list before :-) Sorry if my wording was unclear on this point...

> 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.

But yes, my comments re: filenames would also apply to the log message,
thanks!

Patrick

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