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Re: character encoding on import

From: Markus KARG <markus.karg_at_quipsy.de>
Date: 2006-05-04 08:44:26 CEST

Actually I do not know the solution, but just for my own curiosity:
UTF-8 is able to encode ANY UNICODE character (which includes virtually
all characters of all known languages of the world). So what character
is that...?

Jamie schrieb:

> I'm trying to import a project for the first time into subversion,
> the project is 2.5gb and has thousands of files. Some of the file
> names in the project contain non utf-8 characters. I'm getting errors
> when I try to import such as the following:
>
> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex: 72 6f 6d 61 6e 20 26 20 6a)
> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: 9a 72 6e 20)
>
> The system is RHEL 4, is there any way to either, convert all
> filenames to valid utf-8, or make subversion import without errors?
> Its taking a very long time to figure out where the invalid filenames
> are as its taking a long time to import such a large amount of data
> only to have an error crop up and then have to start all over again
> once its been fixed.
>
> Thanx
> Jamie
>
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Received on Thu May 4 08:41:28 2006

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