On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 18:23 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 01:31:54PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > PASS: prop_tests.py 22: test prop* handle invalid property names > > > > Hmmm... I will try to debug this during the hackathon. > > This is not a problem in Subversion. > Yes its not something that need to be fixed in Subversion. Patch I posted is just to suppress the failure, without changing context of this testcase.
> The problem is way deeper, down in the iconv implementation, > and possibly below that. It seems that the behaviour of the > locale implementation within the C library can cause an error > with GNU iconv when opening encoding/decoding code pages. > > Alexander, what output does the small program below produce > on your system? > Code snippet produced "646". "iconv -f 646 -t UTF-8 /dev/null" returned "iconv: conversion from `646' is not supported"