Thomas Åkesson <tho...@akesson.cc> writes: > If you, or someone else with WC insight, could provide some details on > when/how conversions in the opposite direction is performed (e.g. svn > stat and most commands taking path arguments), that would be > incredibly useful to me. I would like to explore the option to somehow > work around the "irreversible problem".
The Subversion libraries generally deal with UTF-8 paths exclusively. When the use runs $ svn stat foo the path 'foo' is typed in some local encoding. The program converts the path from the local encoding to UTF-8 before passing it to the client or working copy libraries. These library then treats the path as UTF-8 in almost most cases. When making a system call such as stat() they pass the UTF-8 path to the Subversion low-level IO functions in libsvn_subr. These low-level functions convert the UTF-8 to the local encoding before making the system calls. -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com
