[SVN-968] Locating user-specific configuration folder, localization issue

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: install

Environment

Windows NT

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 05/Nov/02 09:26
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:39
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

I'm having a problem when using the svn client when it's trying to locate 
my local user configuration directory. I'm using a french version of 
Windows NT and my "Application Data" directory is named "Données 
d'Application" in french (the first 'e' in Donnees has an accent). 
Subversion seems to have a problem with the accent in the directory 
name. I'm getting the following output :

D:\dev\tools\Subversion>svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk 
svn
svn: Invalid argument
svn: Safe data:
"C:\WINNT\Profiles\rioum\Donn"
... was followed by non-ascii byte 233.

Non-ascii character detected (see above), and unable to convert to 
UTF-8.

Is there a workaround to have this working ?

Original issue reported by matthieuriou

Issue Links

• duplicates: SVN-872 Fix the apr-iconv, apr xlate i18n mess, especially for Win32