Can you propedit the property in the repository you're syncing from?
Failing that, see normalize_string() in subversion/svnsync/sync.c.
Daniel Trebbien wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 22:25:11 +0000:
> I am attempting to use `svnsync` to create a local mirror of
> `svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/nano`, but every time it fails at revision 619
> (http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=nano&revision=619):
> ...
> Copied properties for revision 617.
> Transmitting file data ...
> Committed revision 618.
> Copied properties for revision 618.
> svnsync: Error while replaying commit
>
>
> The problem is that the log message for revision 619, 'Added Galician
> translation by Jacobo Tarrío', was encoded in ISO-8859-1, and this is an illegal
> UTF-8 byte sequence starting at the accented 'i'.
>
> I attempted to set `log-encoding = ISO-8859-1` in my `~/.subversion/config`,
> but this did not work. Moreover, looking through the source of `svnsync`, I
> do not immediately see how to fix this problem. How do I tell `svnsync` to treat
> the log messages from the repository as ISO-8859-1-encoded strings rather than
> UTF-8-encoded strings?
>
Received on 2010-09-09 01:02:14 CEST