[SVN-1535] svn should work in EBCDIC environments

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: src
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Branko Čibej
• Created: 24/Sep/03 01:20
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:40
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

From issue #872:

- Don't even think about using the command-line tools on any
  platform whose native (or output) encoding aren't ASCII-based
  (e.g., the various EBCDIC platforms).

The issue is that we blindly assume that C string literals in the source will be
represented in ASCII -- or rather, an UTF-8 subset. This is simply not the case
in an EBCDIC environment.