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

On 2010-08-13 08:16:48 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 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.

No it is wrong because the above script may send non-printable
characters to the terminal, such as control sequences. Such
control sequences can wreck the terminal and depending on its
configuration, send the contents to a printer.

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