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Re: svn checkout - special characters in file name are not encoding properly

From: Alexander Skwar <alexanders.mailinglists+nospam_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:16:48 +0200

Hi.

2010/8/13 Vincent Lefevre <vincent-svn_at_vinc17.net>
>
> On 2010-08-12 17:16:37 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> > ~/bin/mysvn:
> >  #!/bin/sh
> >  env LC_CTYPE="en_US.<preferred charset>" svn update
>
> Wrong, wrong, wrong! Security hole!

No, not wrong, but totally correct - especially, if you need to parse the
output in some script, you (kinda) MUST set the locale to some value,
that you know. Leaving it in a undefined state is no good at all.

Alexander 

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