X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:54:59 -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: <48A71304.4050809@acm.org> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <48A9C583.5030505@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080815112907.GA31145@trikaliotis.net> <48A62F88.9060104@acm.org> <48A6B26E.1020803@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> <48A71304.4050809@acm.org> 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 8/16/2008 10:48 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: >>> >>>> 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. > > This should have been "supported through apr/aprutil". I'm not sure what > support Cygwin has for UTF-8. > > apr1 and aprutil1 are both without a maintainer. I'm considering taking > over those packages, but haven't found the time yet. It may be possible > to get UTF support into those packages -- I am not an expert there at > all. If those libraries can be built with UTF support, subversion will > get it automatically. I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries. Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8 conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if someone more knowledgeable would correct me, though. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org "Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion." -- Harlan Ellison -- 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/