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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Dave Camp <da...@thinbits.com> on 2005/02/01 03:06:31 UTC

Re: Can't recode string

On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Daniel Eggert wrote:

> First time I try to use subversion.
>
> When I want to import I get this error:
>
>      % svn import Franz svn://10.0.0.8/Franz --message 'Initial import'
>      svn: Can't recode string
>
> Huh? What strings can not be encoded and why?
>
> Running verison 1.1.3 on both server and client. Server is NetBSD,
> client is Darwin.

 From the archives...


>> Various applications need to be told what to expect. If the 
>> environment
>> variables are not there, they fall back to default. In 10.2.8 shell, I
>> just did a printenv, and I don't see any LOCALE or LANG.
>>
>> For LANG, it would be something like
>>
>>     export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> I think. If you're on Jaguar, or just like tcsh, you'll need setenv
>> instead of export, I believe.
>>
>> Hmm. I don't see LOCALE set on my linux box, either.
>
> For the record, this appears to have fixed the problem. For tcsh, the 
> setting would be:
>
> setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8


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Re: Can't recode string

Posted by Daniel Eggert <eg...@macvaerk.dtu.dk>.
On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Dave Camp wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Daniel Eggert wrote:
>
>
>> First time I try to use subversion.
>>
>> When I want to import I get this error:
>>
>>      % svn import Franz svn://10.0.0.8/Franz --message 'Initial 
>> import'
>>      svn: Can't recode string
>>
>> Huh? What strings can not be encoded and why?
>>
>> Running verison 1.1.3 on both server and client. Server is NetBSD,
>> client is Darwin.
>>
>
> From the archives...
>
>
>
>>> Various applications need to be told what to expect. If the 
>>> environment
>>> variables are not there, they fall back to default. In 10.2.8 shell, 
>>> I
>>> just did a printenv, and I don't see any LOCALE or LANG.
>>>
>>> For LANG, it would be something like
>>>
>>>     export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> I think. If you're on Jaguar, or just like tcsh, you'll need setenv
>>> instead of export, I believe.
>>>
>>> Hmm. I don't see LOCALE set on my linux box, either.
>>>
>>
>> For the record, this appears to have fixed the problem. For tcsh, the 
>> setting would be:
>>
>> setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8
>>

Thanks! This fixes the problem. svn, here I come!

/Daniel



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