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Non US-ASCII in user name and .svn/log - svn: Malformed XML: not well-formed

From: Andre-John Mas <ajmas_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:25:01 -0500

Hi,

I have recently run into an issue with regards to subversion, and I am
not sure where to pin the blame. Basically I have created a repository
and have been checking in my files, using subclipse, using a user name
that contains an accent (André). This seems to have been working fine
and a network issue I had now seems to prevent me from adding a
directory I was checking in. I am being told it is already in the
repository, but an update doesn't change the local status and I don't
see it on the server.

I decided to try and 'svn cleanup', from the command line, but that
didn't work, instead giving me the error:

  svn: Malformed XML: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 12

looking at the .svn/log at the deepest point where the failure seems
to have happened I see my accented name. This makes me wonder whether
there is an issue handling non-US-ASCII characters. What format is
this file meant to be in? US-ASCII or UTF-8?

While I can refrain from using accents in my user name, are accents
meant to be supported for data that appears in the log file? Until I
know what the design expectations are, I am not sure whether to ask
the subclipse people to put in support for preventing non US-ASCII
characters being entered for user names or whether to file this as a
bug against subversion.

Note that I have experienced this issue on both MacOS X using
subversion 1.5.3 and on CentOS using subversion 1.4.2.

Andre
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