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Re: 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 20:34:04 -0500

On 2-Nov-08, at 20:25 , Andre-John Mas wrote:

> 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.

I decided to recheckout the whole project with subclipse and didn't
encounter any issues. It would look like it is the command line tools
that are running into the character encoding issue. It should be noted
that I am using svnkit with subclipse. Should I be reporting a bug for
this against subversion?

Andre

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