On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Vitus Piroutz <vitus.piro...@seeyou.at> wrote: > Just to file my frustration (to whom it may concern): > > As posted yesterday as a comment for issue # 2464 "Canonicalize / stringprep > UTF-8 filenames to handle composed / decomposed differences shown by e.g. Mac > OS X HFS+". > [Reminder: this BUG was originally filed on 2005-12-03 (currently is P2, > unscheduled target milestone)!] > > After switching to a Mac and using SVN the first time on that platform, i > initially was impressed by the nice looking GUI's (e.g. Versions, > Cornerstone, svnX). > As i'm working in a mixed team (Windows, Linux, Mac) with international > users, but using a german/english filled (huge) repository, i have to find > out the hard way, that SVN is literally _unusable_ for Mac users if any > umlaute (or non-ascii) characters are used in file- or directorynames. > What a shame! > > Some replies from the support of my GUI-Tool (Cornerstone, as it stands now > wasted money): > >> "I do understand your frustration, believe me. We have had a number of >> complaints regarding this matter but the responsibility for fixing this does >> lie squarely with CollabNet et al, and I know that they have received more >> than their fair share of mails from frustrated users in relation to this." > >> "No Subversion-offical fixes are available as of yet. As soon as they are, >> we'll make them available." > >> "This problem is most likely related to Subversion's lack of support for >> files containing accents and diacritics. " > > So please provide a huge badge on http://subversion.apache.org indicating to > international users "Not for Mac users yet! (we can't handle your filenames, > but working hard since 2005 to fix this)"
The Subversion developers look forward to your patches which fix this problem. Since this is a high-impact issue for you, I'm sure you've considered how to handle the millions of existing repositories in a backward-compatible manner. Best, -Hyrum (a very satisfied Mac Subversion user)
