Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/18/2008 12:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries. >> Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8 >> conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if >> someone more kn

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: > I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries. > Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8 > conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if > someone more knowledgeab

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/16/2008 10:48 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: >>> This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I writ

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-18 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
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

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: > This should have been "supported through apr/aprutil". I'm not sure what > support Cygwin has for UTF-8. > > apr1 and aprutil1 are both without a maintainer. I'm considering taking > over those packages, but haven't found

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: 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 c

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Rothenberger wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: 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 supp

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-15 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/15/2008 4:29 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, I have noticed a behaviour with Subversion 1.5.1 (and the previous one, I think it was 1.4.6?) on a specific project. I get the following output: $ LANG=C svn up svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8': svn: RE Papers f?\

Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-15 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, I have noticed a behaviour with Subversion 1.5.1 (and the previous one, I think it was 1.4.6?) on a specific project. I get the following output: $ svn up svn: Kann Zeichenkette nicht von der eigenen Codierung nach ?\194?\187UTF-8?\194?\171 konvertieren: svn: RE Papers f?\252r XXX.msg

Re: Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:49 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote: >I'm not sure how to send an actual mail reply to that message, but since >Larry said "This list would, however, be interested in >knowing who this third party is and where you found the software >that uses the Cygwin DLL" I can report that in my case I found that

Re: Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Herbert Eppel
On 07.01.2005 17:55 UK Time, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: I removed the burnatonce software and tried to reinstall Cygwin, but after 90% I get the same problem, i.e. I first get a warning message (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/CygwinWarn1.jpg), This is no p

Re: Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herbert Eppel wrote: I removed the burnatonce software and tried to reinstall Cygwin, but after 90% I get the same problem, i.e. I first get a warning message (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/CygwinWarn1.jpg), This is no prblem and no error, just follow the hint displayed. i

Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Herbert Eppel
Hello, I'm trying to install Cygwin on my Windows 2000 computer, but I have a problem ("Can't open database for writing" etc.). I had a look in the archive and saw that the problem has been discussed several times. The message that appears to be most relevant to my situation appears to be Larry

Re: slightly different cygwin installation problem

2004-11-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Daniel Newhouse wrote: --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can easy check this, run the postinstall script again from the command line before installing X11: $ sh /etc/postinstall/post-texinf.sh.done This command did not work and this file is nowhere on my computer. It was quoted

Re: slightly different cygwin installation problem

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Daniel Newhouse wrote: I installed all the cygwin packages except for the X11 packages (I set the X11 packages to uninstall) and although I installed successfully there were a couple of errors in the installation procedure. I got an error message (in a Windows error message box) at one point tellin

slightly different cygwin installation problem

2004-11-13 Thread Daniel Newhouse
I installed all the cygwin packages except for the X11 packages (I set the X11 packages to uninstall) and although I installed successfully there were a couple of errors in the installation procedure. I got an error message (in a Windows error message box) at one point telling me that it couldn't

[Fwd: Re: [Module::Build] Alzabo / Module::Build Cygwin installation problem]

2003-11-15 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 11/14/2003 5:42 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: > There is still a problem to be worked out, but I'm not yet sure where the problem is. Can you tell post your perl & Cwd version. > > Dave, What versions of perl, Cwd, & M::B have you tested Alzabo with? > > This problem doesn't seem directly related t

Cygwin installation problem

2002-01-22 Thread Igor Trevisan
Hi! I tried to install Cygwin under WinNT 4.0 being logged on as a simple user, and I couldn't do it successfully. The C:/cygwin/bin directory contained just a very small part of the application I selected using setup.exe, and there weren't any *.dll files in. The directory C:/cygwin/usr/bin seem

Re: URGENT: Cygwin Installation Problem

2002-01-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
indu britto wrote: > > Hello Earnie > > I went through your tutorial on 'Installing > (Cygwin'http://gw32.freeyellow.com/InstallingCygwin.html) , and followed > these steps, to install Cywin on my Windows 2000 machine: > I'm only responding to you because you mention this out of date website.