subversion files - character set problem

Hi,

I just ran into another problem:

Subversion gets into trouble if a file name contains non-ascii
characters, and the user changes the LC_CTYPE.

e.g. I had a file called 'Erklärung' . The machine where the
repository is checked out is remote managed, i.e. things happen over
ssh. ssh passes LC_CTYPE and LANG from the client to the server.

1. checkout while logged in from a host with UTF-8. subversion creates
   files with UTF-8 file names, especially

   .svn/text-base/Erklärung.svn-base

   with the 'ä' encoded in UTF-8.

2. I log in from a different host which does not support UTF-8, but
   ISO-8859-1. ssh passes this through in order to get readable text.

   When I then do a svn update this happens:

   The svn server tells the client the filename in UTF-8, but the
   client translates it into LC_CTYPE, i.e. ISO-8859-1. then the
   client tries to work with

  .svn/text-base/Erklärung.svn-base

   but then with 'ä' encoded in ISO-8859-1. Subversion therefore does
   not find the file and aborts with an error message, that it can't
   copy .svn/text-base/Erklärung.svn-base to
   .svn/tmp/text-base/Erklärung.svn-base.3.tmp : No such file or
   directory.

regards
Hadmut

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Received on Thu Aug 31 23:25:46 2006