Re: Check out repository with encoded characters

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt <
subversion-2008a_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2008, at 07:39, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > On 3/25/08, Victor Engmark wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >>> On Mar 21, 2008, at 01:54, Victor Engmark wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >>>>> On Mar 20, 2008, at 09:33, Victor Engmark wrote:
> >>>>>> How would you check out a repository created with the command
> >>>>>> $ svnadmin create "æ ø å"
> >>>>>> via HTTP(S)?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've tried the following:
> >>>>>> $ svn co "https://example.org/svn/%c3%a6 ø å"
> >>>>>> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/%C3%A6%20%C3%B8%20%C3%A5'
> >>>>>> svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This works fine for other repositories:
> >>>>>> $ svnadmin create "a b c"
> >>>>>> $ svn co "https://example.org/svn/a b c"
> >>>>>> Checked out revision 0.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My shell uses UTF-8 encoding:
> >>>>>> $ set | grep LANG
> >>>>>> GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If this is a set of repositories served using SVNParentPath, then
> >>>>> browse to https://example.org/svn in a web browser and copy
> >>>>> the link
> >>>>> to the æ ø å repository.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't have a web interface to the server (I get a "403:
> >>>> Forbidden"
> >>>> message at https://example.org/svn).
> >>>
> >>> Add "SVNListParentPath on" to your Apache configuration.
> >>
> >> Did that, and got the following error message on the web page:
> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> >> <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns"
> >> xmlns:C="svn:">
> >> <C:error/>
> >> <m:human-readable errcode="22">
> >> Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8':
> >> </m:human-readable>
> >> </D:error>
> >
> > That's correct. I'm not aware of a way to make Apache locale aware.
> > Unfortunately, that's what's required for Subversion to work with
> > non-ascii paths to a repository.
>
> Works fine on a Mac. So, get a Mac to serve your repositories.
>
> I used "svnadmin create foo" and then in the Finder I renamed "foo"
> to "æ ø å" (since I don't know how to type non-ASCII characters in
> the Terminal). Viewed in Firefox, I see:
>
> Collection of Repositories
>
> * æ ø å/
>
> Clicking this gives me:
>
> http://www.example.com/svn/%c3%a6%20%c3%b8%20a%cc%8a/
>

That's odd - It looks like "å" is translated to "a%cc%8a", which is
different from my result, "%C3%A5".

-- 
Victor Engmark