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Re: German Umlaute on MAc OSX 10.5 Running SVN 1.4.3 client

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:06:02 +0100

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:49:07PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2008, at 17:32, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:45:57AM +0100, Dieter Oberkofler wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> 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
>
> Stefan, I agree that is a known issue with non-ASCII filenames when
> in a mixed Mac/Windows environment. However, that's not the error
> message Dieter reported.

Oops :)

Sorry, my faq trigger fired in the wrong direction.

Stefan

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