On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:29:16PM -0400, Friedrich.Brunzema wrote: > Im kind of surprised/disappointed that a reliable patch mechanism does not > seem to exist for svn.
Well, before Subversion 1.7, there was no support for applying patches at all! I think the basic problem you're asking about is that Subversion does not support UTF-16 as a text format. This problem isn't specific to the 'svn patch' command. Solving this problem probably isn't trivial. See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2194
