X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:38:16 -0700 From: David Rothenberger Subject: Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem? In-reply-to: <20080815112907.GA31145@trikaliotis.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <48A62F88.9060104@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <20080815112907.GA31145@trikaliotis.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080708 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 8/15/2008 4:29 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed a behaviour with Subversion 1.5.1 (and the previous one, I > think it was 1.4.6?) on a specific project. > > I get the following output: > > $ LANG=C svn up > svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8': > svn: RE Papers f?\252r XXX.msg > > (The ?\252 is a German-umlaut 'u' - 'ü') Subversion for Cygwin uses apr or aprutil to do the conversion to UTF-8, and those libraries don't support UTF conversion under Cygwin. I think this is because Cygwin itself does not support it, although I'm not sure. > The worst thing of this: Subversion completely aborts after this > (ignoring this one file would be a much better option for me...) That is the stock behavior for subversion when the conversion fails. I'm not going to change that for Cygwin. > This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or > if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I write this mail here, and > not on a Subversion list. Windows supports the conversion using Windows APIs, it's just not supported through Cygwin. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend." -- Mark Twain -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/