RE: Using UTF8 in repository name?

This message on the forum is 100% about the server side configuration. The client has no known problems encoding paths in a url, but the url specification itself doesn’t document an explicit encoding and as such Apache Httpd has to do the translation of the first part of the URL to the local path. When this fails you see errors as in this forum post.

The part after the repository location is 100% handled inside the Subversion code and is always UTF-8 safe as it has no relation to real on-disk paths.

On platforms like MAC/OS or Windows the server handles UTF-8 paths directly, but on unix based platforms like Linux where paths are at the core just formed by a bunch of bytes without a special meaning, you have to use a proper configuration. If the configuration mismatches there is no way to convert from the path form to UTF-8 and the other way around.

                Bert

From: Doug Robinson [mailto:doug.robinson_at_wandisco.com]
Sent: maandag 10 april 2017 22:17
To: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Using UTF8 in repository name?

Brane:

Thank you for replying. Based on this post:

https://www.svnforum.org/forum/opensource-subversion-forums/general-setup-and-troubleshooting/79832-why-repository-name-should-not-be-utf-8

I am wondering if the SVN client is properly URL-encoding the repository name?

Based on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

I'm beginning to wonder if it is even possible (sort of similar to what Mac/OS does to UTF8 text...)?

Thank you.

Doug

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org <mailto:brane_at_apache.org> > wrote:

On 10.04.2017 14:44, Doug Robinson wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I understand that UTF8 is the standard inside of Subversion repositories.
> My question is whether having the repository name itself be UTF8? For
> instance zh_CN.utf8 ? I googled around a bit and don't see an answer.
>
> If it is supported, is there some Apache setting that is required?
>
> Thanks in advance.

As long as the underlying filesystem supports it, there should be no
problems.

-- Brane

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