Re: svnadmin: Path '....' is not in UTF-8 - svnadmin load fails

> I would try to edit the dump file with a hexeditor and replace the
> offending two bytes with two spaces (or the proper UTF-8 character
> if you know what should be there and the UTF-8 sequence has the same
> number of bytes).

Ok, lets take some hex editor and get rid of those bad sequences.

> I hope the number of paths affected by this problem
> is small enough to keep this solution practical.

I'll hope so too - lets see how to split my dump to get hexedit solution
running.

>
> > If none of the third-party dump manipulation tools can do that,
>
> ... then we should provide our users with a way of fixing it,
> as we did for e.g. badly encoded revision properties.

That would be a "nice-to-have" feature :).

> Daniel, please keep in mind that this is the *users* list.

Yes.

> Maybe Torsten would like to try this, but I doubt that modifying
> Subversion's code is the kind of advice he was looking for.

You're right ;-)

> And I really don't think that this suggestion is something that people
> who are not familiar with Subversion's code base should attempt to do.
> If people modify the code without understand it well the chances of
> unintentionally breaking things are way too high.
>

I can try but as you said - i am not familiar with the code base and
i'll bet, things are more worse after my modifications ;-).

> It's bad enough that Torsten has to edit the dump file to fix this.

But i will take this "red pill" to see where the journey ends :-D