Re: Missing LOCALE in post-commit hook leads to weird behaviour of `svnlook log` with unicode characters – broken transliterations

Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 06:35:17PM +0100, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote:
> > All the commit messages content transfered is broken as described
> > above.
> >
> > This happens because the post-commit hook is running with a very
> > reduced set of environment variables:
> > PWD=/
> > SHLVL=1
>
> See http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#hooks-en
> v
> and http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#mod-dav-
> svn-utf8

Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>:
> This is documented in the official documentation (the "SVN Book"):
> [...]
> (see the first sentence there: "By default, Subversion executes hook
> scripts with an empty environment—that is, no environment variables
> are set at all, not even $PATH (or %PATH%, under Windows).")

OK - My „Postscriptum“ was not correct - my apologies.

But still valid are the the points:

- Broken transliteration of German Umlaut.
- Subversion is ignoring the machine locate settings which should
normally the default if not overwritten in the Environment. This is a
considerable bad behaviour for a linux/unix application.

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