Re: svn: Can't recode string

> A couple of people responded like the above... I need to set the
> locale. So, I guess my follow up questions would be...
>
> 1) How do I set the locale? man locale doesn't yield anything terribly
> useful.

IIRC, Mac OS X still (panther) doesn't really implement the *nix locales.
(Check for yourself, anyone who has a Linux or freeBSD box and a Mac OS
X box to compare.)

Anyway locale and language are environment variables.

> 2) It's not obvious why this is even necessary. I thought subversion
> was supposed to be unicode savvy? Assuming it stored the filename in
> some Unicode encoding in the database (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc...) and my OS
> fully supports Unicode (Mac OS X uses Unicode everywhere and the HFS+
> filesystem stores filenames in Unicode), why is there a problem? Can
> someone enlighten me?

Various applications need to be told what to expect. If the environment
variables are not there, they fall back to default. In 10.2.8 shell, I
just did a printenv, and I don't see any LOCALE or LANG.

For LANG, it would be something like

    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I think. If you're on Jaguar, or just like tcsh, you'll need setenv
instead of export, I believe.

Hmm. I don't see LOCALE set on my linux box, either.

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