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

On 2010-08-13 11:39:43 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> Yes, I see the difference. It's a question of where the primary
> configuration knob for the charset is located.
>
> Right now, the source of charset information is always the locale.
>
> You want it to be the locale at checkout time and some pre-recorded
> value at update time (not sure what your idea is about all the other
> subcommands).
>
> But I don't think having two sources for this information is a good idea.

In any standard Unix system, the locale is process-dependent.
So, anyway, if you consider the locale, the source can change
from one call to another. So, considering the locale only is
definitely not a good idea.

> So I think Subversion should continue trusting users with setting
> their locale. It's simple. It works.

No, it doesn't work. If the locale changes (what is allowed on
any standard Unix system), a "svn up" breaks the working copy.

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