SVN and accented characters

Question

I have a subversion repository that I administer. When I try to add a file which has accented (non-ASCII) characters in its name, the server refuses the command. The server is running on Ubuntu, the client is Eclipse on Windows.

I could not find anything in the SVN FAQ about accented characters in filenames, nor in the SVN Book. I know that having accented characters in sourcecode file's name is probably not such a good idea, but ... this is the requirement ...

Any idea of where to find the documentation ?

Answer 1

This sounds relevant, but it's hard when you haven't given the exact error you get from your server.

Still, sounds like sound advice: check your local system's filename encoding.

Answer 2

make sure that on your server you have apr-iconv installed. Without apr-iconv, Subversion can not convert utf8 strings and will throw an error if it fails to do so.

You might also get more information from the server error log.

Answer 3

Check svn:eol-style