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 because Cygwin itself does not support it, although I'm not sure.
Thanks for the explanation. >> The worst thing of this: Subversion completely aborts after this >> (ignoring this one file would be a much better option for me...) > > That is the stock behavior for subversion when the conversion fails. I'm > not going to change that for Cygwin. Yes, I know. This was not meant as a wish for you to change it, just a description of the current status. >> 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 > supported through Cygwin. Ok; thus, for this specific project, I will stay with the "native" SVN. Thank you. Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
