[SVN-983] cvs2svn.py: Non-ASCII characters garbled

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: cvs2svn-1.0
• Component/s: tools

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 12/Nov/02 17:30
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:40
• Resolved: 15/Sep/04 08:43

Description

Special non-ASCII characters like german umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß - i.e. ä  
ö ü ß in HTML entities) are not encoded correctly.  
  
cvs log <FILE> shows some strange characters  
cvs --xml log <FILE> shows the umlauts in cleartext (i.e. ä) instead of  
UTF-8 encoding  
  
Example:  
  
--------------------- snip ---------------------  
CVS original log:  
Ergänzung um Protokolle, Parameter BenutzerId  
  
svn --xml log:  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<log>  
<logentry  
   revision="710">  
<author>volker</author>  
<date>2002-08-23T11:48:58.000000Z</date>  
<msg>Ergänzung um Protokolle, Parameter BenutzerId  
</msg>  
</logentry>  
  
  
svn log:  
------------------------------------------------------------------------  
rev 710:  volker | 2002-08-23 13:48:58 +0200 (Fre, 23 Aug 2002) | 2 lines  
  
Erg?\228nzung um Protokolle, Parameter BenutzerId  
--------------------- snip ---------------------  
  
Using umlauts when in the log message with the command line svn just works  
fine and as expected:  
  
--------------------- snip ---------------------  
<logentry  
   revision="1">  
<author>volker</author>  
<date>2002-11-08T21:46:57.494669Z</date>  
<msg>Verzeichnis trunk ergÃ?nzt</msg>  
</logentry>  
  
Verzeichnis trunk ergänzt  
  
-------------------------------------------  
 Environment: 
 
 
I can provide you with the CVS/RCS-File for this import.

Original issue reported by pholcer

Issue Links

• blocks: SVN-984 cvs2svn.py: Logentries corrupted after import
• duplicates: SVN-1106 cvs2svn: need regression test for control chars in CVS log msg
• is depended upon by: SVN-984 cvs2svn.py: Logentries corrupted after import
• is duplicated by: SVN-984 cvs2svn.py: Logentries corrupted after import