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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject: Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because  "Can't convert  string  from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem,  or generic   Cygwin installation problem?
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On 8/16/2008 10:48 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>> David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>>>
>>>> This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line)
>>>> Subversion, or
>>>> if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I write this mail here, and
>>>> not on a Subversion list.
>>>
>>> Windows supports the conversion using Windows APIs, it's just not
>>> supported through Cygwin.
> 
> This should have been "supported through apr/aprutil". I'm not sure what
> support Cygwin has for UTF-8.
> 
> apr1 and aprutil1 are both without a maintainer. I'm considering taking
> over those packages, but haven't found the time yet. It may be possible
> to get UTF support into those packages -- I am not an expert there at
> all. If those libraries can be built with UTF support, subversion will
> get it automatically.

I've tried building the latest apr and apr-util libraries.
Unfortunately, this doesn't allow subversion CLI to do UTF-8
conversions. So I think this is a limitation of Cygwin. I'd be happy if
someone more knowledgeable would correct me, though.

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