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Re: svn import failed with invalid UTF-8 sequence

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:32:19 -0500

On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:18, Miguel Rentes wrote:

> I've trying to do a svn import into a new svn repository and I get
> the error
>
> svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> (hex:)
> followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> (hex: ab 4e 65 77)
>
> and this is because I have in my project a folder name «New Symbol
> Library». I must have it in my svn repository, so how can I can do
> an import without subversion aborting the svn import?

Is the LANG environment variable on your client set to the correct
value for your client's operating system? Subversion needs this
environment variable set so it knows how to convert data like
filenames from whatever your OS provides to the UTF-8 format
Subversion uses internally.

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