On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:32:08PM +0000, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:45:57AM +0100, Dieter Oberkofler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I having problems when updating a working copy on a Mac OSX 10.5 client
> > using svn 1.4.3 (r23084) client running against a repository on a Windows
> > 2003 Server running 1.4.3. When using filenames that contain "German
> > Umlaute" (but I guess it's the same for any other non ASCII7 encoding) I get
> > the following type of error:
> > ---
> > Apples-Power-Mac-G5:/MyDev/ljs_app/trunk apple$ svn update
> > svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
> > svn: examples/ptk_example/mac/test/o?\204?\136a?\204?\136u?\204?\136
> > ---
> > Can anyone help?
>
> This is a known issue.
> See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464
>
> For a technical description of the problem, and explanation why
> it is not easy to solve, see:
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/unicode-composition-for-filenames
And see also here for a human-readable description of the problem:
http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/faq.php#accents
Stefan
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