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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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?
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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 AT acm DOT org

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                 -- Mark Twain


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