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Re: "recode string" issue in commit messages

From: Dominic Mitchell <dom_at_happygiraffe.net>
Date: 2005-03-08 15:08:17 CET

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:19:41PM +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Hello subversion users,
>
> I have a issue about non ascii characters in commit messages.
> It is annoying.
>
> sh> uname -a
> Linux sablons 2.4.20-3-686 #1 Sat Jun 7 22:34:55 EST 2003 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> sh> svn --version
> svn, version 1.1.3 (r12730)
>
> # somewhere...
> sh> cat comments
> En fran?ais il y a des lettres accentu?es.
>
> sh> svn commit -F comments
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Can't recode string
>
> I do not think I'm the first to try to put accentuated characters in a
> comment, however I have neither found this reported nor it seems to appear
> in the FAQ. The bug-reporting form say one should send an email here
> instead of reporting a bug. So here I am.
>
> Is it a bug? a feature? Am I missing something?

I would hazard a guess that it'll work properly if you encode that
"comments" file as UTF-8.

Alternatively, you can specify the usual encoding of commit messages by
changing your config file. Look for the "log-encoding" setting in the
manual:

    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1.3.2

-Dom

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