[SVN-4075] Unicode handling on Mac OS X

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.x
• Fix Version/s: ---
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Labels: needsdesign uex

Environment

Mac OS X

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Krischik
• Created: 11/Dec/11 09:55
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:29
• Resolved: 12/Dec/11 14:01

Description

Subversion seem to have some serious problems in the area of Unicode handling of file names.

I tried to delete a file from the repository using:

> svn rm -m"Subversion is still not able to use unicode correctly so we need another round of 
fixing." https://gnuada.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gnuada/pmwiki/htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.Bj%C3%
B6rnPersson

Committed revision 991.

I update to delete the file from the local copy:

>svn update 
Updating '.':
D    htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.BjörnPersson
Aktualisiert zu Revision 991.

Up until here it looks good. But then:

>svn status
!       htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.BjörnPersson

Still there? And indeed:

>svn update
Updating '.':
Wieder hergestellt »htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.BjörnPersson«
Revision 991.

Back again. But wait that is not all:

>svn status
?       htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.BjörnPersson
!       htdocs/wiki.d/Profiles.BjörnPersson

Now there are two offenders! You need to delete the other one as well to get it sorted:

>svn rm -m"Subversion is still not able to use unicode correctly so we need another round of 
fixing." https://gnuada.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gnuada/pmwiki/htdocs/wiki.d/
Profiles.Bjo<0308>rnPersson

Committed revision 992.

Yes there are two ways to write an ö in unicode «\0xC3\0yB6» and «\0x6f\0xcc\0x88» That is 
just as much fun then changing the capitalization on Windows.

Issue Links

• duplicates: SVN-2464 Canonicalize / stringprep UTF-8 filenames to handle composed / decomposed differences shown by e.g. Mac OS X HFS+