On 09/08/2011 02:07 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
> This is a JavaHL issue.  See the attached patch which resolves the
> problem I face.
> 
> If I use the JavaHL diff API to produce a patch it fails if there are
> paths in the patch with UTF8 characters in the name.  Here is an
> example of the Exception:
> 
>     Invalid argument
> svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
> svn: Index: ?\230?\181?\139?\232?\175?\149?\230?\150?\135?\228?\187?\182.txt
> ===================================================================
> 
> RA layer request failed
> svn: Error reading spooled REPORT request response
> 
> 
> The problem seems to be that JavaHL creates the output file for the
> patch with the encoding of SVN_APR_LOCALE_CHARSET.  If I change this
> to "utf-8" as shown in the patch then the method works.
> 
> The command line client from the same system works fine.
> 
> How do people feel about this?  Does it make sense that JavaHL should
> create the patch file with UTF-8 encoding?  I tend to think it does,
> but thought I would raise the question here.

Why does the command-line client work?  Does it not also use the locale
encoding for its diff headers?  At any rate, consistency between the
behaviors of the relevant Java and C APIs seems like a reasonable goal.

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>
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