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?

2008-08-18 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello David, * On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:38:16PM -0700 David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/15/2008 4:29 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: [...] 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

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?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
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,

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?

2008-08-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: 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

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?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/18/2008 12:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: 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

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?

2008-08-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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

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?

2008-08-16 Thread David Rothenberger
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

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?

2008-08-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: 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

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?

2008-08-15 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
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: $ svn up svn: Kann Zeichenkette nicht von der eigenen Codierung nach ?\194?\187UTF-8?\194?\171 konvertieren: svn: RE Papers f?\252r XXX.msg

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?

2008-08-15 Thread David Rothenberger
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