Re: svnlook cat seems to swallow byte order marks

On 05/21/2013 10:53 AM, Alexander Veit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that
>
> svnlook cat
>
> swallows byte order marks (e.g. \xEF\xBB\xBF) from committed files. Therefore it is difficult to check for the presence or absence of BOMs in commit hooks.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is a bug in Subversion (at least in version: 1.7.7)?

Nope. Works as expected here.

$ svnlook cat data/repositories/i18n-data utf8-chinese-bom.txt > foo
$ hexdump -C foo
00000000 ef bb bf 75 74 66 38 2d 63 68 69 6e 65 73 65 2d |...utf8-chinese-|
00000010 62 6f 6d 2d e5 90 8c e6 84 8f 0a |bom-.......|
0000001b
$

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