Archive for November, 2005

Well, I recently set up a subversion system where I work, on Windows. Clients are using Tortoise SVN, and everything works beautifully. However this morning, I checked out the trunk on my Mac OS X powered Powerbook, and the lawnmower hit a brick the split second svn tried to checkout a folder with accented characters (In french, for instance. Could have been german umlauts).

svn: Can’t recode string

Well, this was a matter of changing the encoding used by my system locale to match the one of the repository, which was done by editing the file .profile in my home directory (I use bash as a default shell, which is the default on OS X 10.3 and above, as opposed to csh) and added the following:

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

This basically had the effect of setting up the locale to UTF8, which swallowed the file without problems. I just though I’d post it there because it was useful — I didn’t really google around to check out if that solution was already out there, but I will mirror it on underwares.org anyways.

Hope this helps someone, somehow.