Bert Huijben wrote on Tue, 2 Mar 2010 at 09:39 +0100: > > Maybe the svn:date we can presume a UTF-8 character set, but the > > svn:author, svn:log we shouldn't. > > For the svn:* properties we currently define we declared that they > always use utf-8 and use '\n' as line ending. Clients are responsible > for handling the conversions. See svn_prop_needs_translation() for > more details. (Since 1.6 we even validate this on the filesystem or ra > layer). >
The validation of properties is done in the repos layer, actually. The FS layer doesn't assume that properties are in UTF-8. (It does assume/enforce that pathnames inside the repository are in UTF-8.) > For other properties and svn:* we haven't defined yet, we can't assume > anything. Users might have their MP3 collection stored in them ;-) > (Most clients I know use these same normalization rules on all > properties they edit. E.g. TortoiseSVN doesn't support editing > properties with Windows style line endings) > > Bert > >
