Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding

[Robert Denton <ro...@headsprout.com>]

Hi folks,

I am getting an error when trying to do an svn update (see full text  
of error below).  Has anyone encountered this or know how to correct it?

subversion/libsvn_subr/utf.c:466: (apr_err=22)
svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
subversion/libsvn_subr/utf.c:464: (apr_err=22)
svn: /svn_local/trunk/Marketing/Graphics source/ 
ExternalWebsiteReviews/Region XIII?\194?\160Education Service Center  
- Supplemental Educational Services.pdf

Notice that the characters between XIII and Education are '?\194? 
\160' but in the actual file name it is just a space.  Any suggestions?

Robert

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Re: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 14:31, Robert Denton wrote:

> I am getting an error when trying to do an svn update (see full  
> text of error below).  Has anyone encountered this or know how to  
> correct it?
>
> subversion/libsvn_subr/utf.c:466: (apr_err=22)
> svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
> subversion/libsvn_subr/utf.c:464: (apr_err=22)
> svn: /svn_local/trunk/Marketing/Graphics source/ 
> ExternalWebsiteReviews/Region XIII?\194?\160Education Service  
> Center - Supplemental Educational Services.pdf
>
> Notice that the characters between XIII and Education are '?\194? 
> \160' but in the actual file name it is just a space.  Any  
> suggestions?

The character represented by the decimal bytes 194 160 (hex 0xC2  
0xA0) are not "just a space." According to this page, it's the  
"control" character U+0080:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0080/index.htm

You said "update", not "add", so this file is already in the  
repository, it seems.

To allow your client to deal with filenames with non-ASCII  
characters, you need to inform Subversion what character encoding  
your terminal uses. Do so by setting the LANG environment variable to  
the correct value for your system. For example, on my Mac, I set LANG  
to "en_US.UTF-8" because my terminal uses the UTF-8 encoding and  
because I want to see program messages in American English. Locales  
in other operating systems may be different.

Once you are able to check this file out, you should rename it so  
that you replace the control character with a real space, to avoid  
problems in the future.

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