Re: "Strange" characters in file names

On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:36, <svn.users@salvisberg.com>
<svn.users@salvisberg.com> wrote:

> I run a Drupal CMS (written in PHP) on a SuSE Server under Apache,
> and one of the users has uploaded a file which causes svn 1.4.3 to
> choke:
>
> svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8':
> svn: Kurs Ern?\195?\164hrung.doc
>
> ls shows the file name as
>
> Kurs Ern??hrung.doc
>
> The file name should be "Kurs Ernährung.doc", and it probably
> orginated from Windows.
>
> PHP may have messed up this one, but the file is there, and it's
> fully accessible in Drupal. The filename displays correctly on the
> web page (charset=utf-8), and the file can be downloaded.
>
> I haven't tried adding it to the repository yet, the error appears
> when doing
>
> svn st
>
> Is there a way to help svn to accept this file?

Perhaps you have not set the LANG variable so ls and svn don't know
how to properly display it. Try export LANG=de_DE.utf8 or whatever
the correct value for your OS is. (The contents of the directory /usr/
share/locale may tell you what the valid locales are on your system.)

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