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Re: Examples with URI and IRI in the svn 1.1 release notes

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-02-17 18:33:04 CET

Can you post a patch to the dev@ list which fixes the example?

On Feb 17, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On <http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.1_releasenotes.html>, it is
> written:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> In the 1.0 commandline client, users had to escape URLs manually.
> The client only accepted "legally correct" URLs, such as
>
> svn checkout http://host/path%20with%20space/project/espa%F1a
>
> The 1.1 commandline client now knows how to do what web-browsers have
> been doing for long time: it auto-escapes characters like spaces and
> other upper-ascii i18n characters.
>
> svn checkout "http://host/path with space/project/españa"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
>
> This is a bit confusing, but this text seems to say: With 1.0, one had
> to use escape sequences, e.g.
>
> svn checkout http://host/path%20with%20space/project/espa%F1a
>
> but with 1.1, one can write instead
>
> svn checkout "http://host/path with space/project/españa"
>
> which is more human-readable. However, this won't work on this example,
> since "ñ" is encoded as %C3%B1 (from the UTF-8 sequence), not as %F1.
>
> The first "svn checkout" line should probably be changed to
>
> svn checkout http://host/path%20with%20space/project/espa%C3%B1a
>
> or a completely different example should be given to show that this
> is not the same thing.
>
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