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Re: SVN 1.8.5 - Problems setting LC_CTYPE

From: Stefan Hett <stefan_at_egosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:52:30 +0200

Hi,

1.8.5 is really old. Maybe you wanna give the latest one a try (1.8.13)
to see whether the issue is resolved with that already (I don't suggest
it does, but maybe worth a try)?

Regards,
Stefan
> Hi folks,
>
> Recently started coming across problems when running svn commands on
> Linux RHEL 6+, for example svn --version returns the following
>
> svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale
> svn: warning: environment variable LANG is en_US.UTF-8
> svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct
> svn, version 1.8.5 (r1542147)
>
> Only way so far to stop the warnings it is setting LC_CTYPE=C, but
> this is not a solution for us as there are files names with foreign
> characters so we need the UTF-8 encoding.
>
> Oddly, there are no warnings on RHEL 5, but this maybe because the
> binary was built on this platform which I am looking into now.
> Otherwise, would something like a hook script to set the environment
> variables be a viable workaround for this, I haven't worked with them
> before so I'm just trying to avoid running into a dead end.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Eoin
Received on 2015-04-14 11:53:21 CEST

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