Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2008, at 03:50, Ben Schonle wrote:
>
>> Lars Grunewaldt wrote:
>>
>>> Am 12.03.2008 um 17:04 schrieb Ben Schonle:
>>>
>>>> when importing a folder with mutiple subfolders and files I get the
>>>> error:
>>>>
>>>> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
>>>> (hex: 4b 61 69 72 6f 73 20 70)
>>>> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
>>>> (hex: f5 68 69 76)
>>>>
>>>> As I understand it there are some characters in the file names that
>>>> are not UTF8. I was thinking not to rename the respective files /
>>>> folders, but would need to know their names, locations first.
>>>>
>>>> How do you suggest to proceed?
>>>
>>> this happens mostly (for me), when entering a commit message that
>>> contains German Umlaute or other non-ISO8859-1-Characters on a unix
>>> terminal. Maybe that's the case for you, too?
>>>
>>> Otherwise, you could hex-decode the string (treat the numbers as
>>> 8-Bit-ANSI-Characters), that should be a part of your filename.
>>
>> for me the problem is that some folders / file names contain German
>> Umlaute.
>>
>> according to Lars I should hex-decode the string. Thus the questions:
>>
>> * how do I find out which folders / files I need to hexdecode?
>> * how do I hexdecode them once found?
>
> Take the hex in the error message and turn it into characters.
>
>>>> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
>>>> (hex: 4b 61 69 72 6f 73 20 70)
>
> That's all ASCII data (all bytes are less than hex 80) so in any
> character encoding that's "Kairos p"
>
>>>> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
>>>> (hex: f5 68 69 76)
>
> If we assume the character encoding of these bytes is ISO-8859-1, then
> this is "õhiv".
>
> One solution is to rename the files to have no non-ASCII characters.
>
> What you probably want to do, though, is set the LANG environment
> variable correctly so that svn knows what character encoding to use to
> read the file names.
>
Hey Ryan,
I now renamed the respective files to only use ASCII characters.
However, I would be still interested to know WHERE to set the LANG
environment variable? Do you refer her to the OS or to SVN settings?
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