André Malo wrote:
* Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It doesn't belong here, but... I'm wondering why the path isn't passed as
UTF-8. Why is it translated to the locale at all? It's all happening within
the svn file system, so I'd really expect to get utf-8 and would consider
locale translation as a bug.
Well, I imagine that the assumption is that any hook script is going
to be using the actual locale specified in LANG/LC_ALL/etc env
variables, so if we don't translate to that locale it'll get rather
confused by utf8 data in its command line. As a general rule svn
translates from native -> utf8 on input and from utf8 -> native for
output. Ironically, if the LANG/LC_ALL/etc env vars were being
followed by httpd this translation would be a noop, since the system
uses a utf8 locale...
So whether the users of a repository (httpd or svnserve) may use the full
unicode range for their files depends on the locale of the server? That feels
just wrong ;-) I don't see how there are command line confusings...
You're confusing the content of the SVN repository and hook scripts
stored on the local filesystem. Paths in the first are always encoded in
UTF-8. The latter naturally have to obey the server's locale.
-- Brane
