Hi Cristiano, I did not finish porting svn to z/OS using EBCDIC. The subversion source code intermixes native strings and characters with real UTF-8 and assumes any random combination of those results in UTF-8. It would take maybe a month of coding and testing to untangle it. But there is no point, for two reasons:
* someone has already ported svn to z/OS by avoiding EBCDIC using the extended ASCII support: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-11/0063.shtml * you can use this Java svn client on z/OS: http://svnkit.com/ svnkit's client can translate all the text files in a checkout to EBCDIC if you want. Then you must be careful that every character of text in a non-z/OS repository is in UTF-8 so it can translated easily. Good luck, Greg On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Cristiano Guadagnino <crigu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Mr. Ames, > I found a recent (may 2010) message of yours regarding the build of SVN > client on z/OS. > I am very interested in getting an SVN client on z/OS (we are using 1.11 > presently), so I'd like to know if you were successful and eventually if you > would be so nice to share the binaries with me. > > Thank you in advance. > > Bye > Cristiano Guadagnino > >
