On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:40, Samuel Langlois wrote: > I would like to know (and hopefully set!) the encoding used by svn log. > (I know about the --xml option, which works fine, but it is not easily > readable by a human.) > > From what I see, it outputs ISO8859-1, so European àcçeñts are OK, but > Japanese, Chinese, etc. characters are output as question marks (?). > Is there a way, configuring either svn or Windows, to make it produce UTF-8 ? > It seems somewhat linked to the mysterious "Language for non-Unicode > programs" setting in the Regional Settings, but I could not make it work.
My understanding was that Subversion log entries are always stored as UTF-8 in the repository, and that the conversion to and from your system's character encoding, if different from UTF-8, are handled by your client, in response to things like (on UNIX-like operating systems) the LANG environment variable (not sure what Windows uses for that).
