As Ben said: Log messages are stored as UTF-8 in the repository. This is
enforced (at commit/propset time) only with 1.6.x servers, but isn't
checked by the svn client (AFAIK).
Are your log messages stored in UTF-8 in the repository? (Check with
'propget --strict svn:log'.)
B. Smith-Mannschott wrote on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 at 19:38 +0100:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 18:26, Justin Michel <justin_michel_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > This usually happens when one of our devs enters a comment containing
> > non-ascii text. There's a lot of this in a large legacy project we've
> > inherited, and it makes it inconvenient to use tools that post-process the
> > logs to extract information. (e.g. statsvn)
>
> I suspect:
>
> Subversion <= 1.5 assumes that the bytes for the log message (and
> other internal subversion properties) are UTF-8 but does not actually
> verify this.
> This works provided the client software does the transcoding. I
> believe the svn client learns this from the environment variables LANG
> and friends.
> If Subversion believes that the console is using a different encoding
> than it actually is, hilarity ensues.
>
> When emitting XML Subversion just assumes that the bytes it's got are
> correctly encoded and drops them into the output.
> (I encountered a failure to properly escape & in an earlier release,
> but that's neither here nor there and probably long since fixed.)
>
> I believe Subversion >= 1.6 is stricter on this count, rejecting log
> messages which do not use the proper encoding (UTF-8) and eol-style
> (LF).
> But this doesn't help you if your server is older than 1.6, and it
> won't help for old commits made with previous releases of Subversion.
>
> Anyway, that's my understanding. Corrections welcome.
>
> // Ben
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