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Re: Cannot do a 'svn status': svn responds something about invalid UTF-8 data

From: Oscar Peñas <chopsuey_at_softhome.net>
Date: 2005-10-04 16:28:46 CEST

El lun, 03-10-2005 a las 19:23 +0200, Oscar Peñas escribió:
> Hi.
>
> I just updated svn to the latest 1.2.3 version under SuSE 9.2.
> Now, every time I try to do a 'svn status' on any of my existing working
> copies, I get a message like the following:
>
> chopsuey@chopsuey:~/code/server> svn status
> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex: 78)
> followed by an invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: c4 07 08)
>
> Needless to say, this didn't happen before the update. Last version I
> used was the one which came with SuSE 9.2 (1.0.8 I think) and everything
> worked fine.
>
> I also get errors when trying to commit. The return message this time
> was something like: 'Can't convert native string to UTF-8', followed by
> a bunch of non-readable characters.
>
> Anybody has any clue about what's going on? Is this some conflict with
> any of subversion's dependencies?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> See ya.
>

I found in the manual that this could be related to the locale settings,
which haven't changed since I installed my SuSE, as far as I know.
Anyway, 'locale' returns the following:

chopsuey@chopsuey:~/code/glaretest> locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Btw, I have tried to create a new repository from scratch with svnadmin
v1.2.3 and the problems persist. For example, after 'svnadmin create', I
try to create a basic repository layout, so I issue:

chopsuey_at_chopsuey:~/code/glare> svn mkdir svn://localhost/glare

I enter the commit message and svn responds:

svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8':
svn: X?\13?\208?\184
svn: Su mensaje de commit fue dejado en un archivo temporario:
svn: 'svn-commit.2.tmp'

After that, the new directory seems to be there:

chopsuey_at_chopsuey:~/code/glare> svn list svn://localhost
glare/

What's going on? I'm getting a little mad about this. I know it has to
be something about character encodings but can't understand what's
wrong. Please lend me a hand.

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