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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?
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.
So the suggested workaround is to use native Windows Subversion?
Yes. Or TortoiseSVN or Subclipse or any other Windows client. I
personally use Subclipse and the Cygwin CLI and have had no problems. I
can't comment on whether using the native Windows SVN CLI in combination
with the Cygwin CLI will cause problems or not.
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