Without reading the context: Philip Martin posted just this week with a detailed explanation of when non-ASCII passwords would (and wouldn't) work over http.
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:12:27 -0400: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Cooke, Mark <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > Glad to have been useful (and to know it is not just me)! > > > > Unfortunately I have not managed to get to the bottom of how or why > > subversion <-> httpd is mangling the password and what (if anything) > > subversion (or neon or serf?) could change to fix this... > > > > ~ mark c > > > As I remember, not much. Passing non-ASCII characters through any kind of > password handling tool is a problem, for a lot of reasons.
