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André Malo wrote:
> * Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>> It doesn't belong here, but... I'm wondering why the path isn't passed as
>>> UTF-8. Why is it translated to the locale at all? It's all happening within
>>> the svn file system, so I'd really expect to get utf-8 and would consider
>>> locale translation as a bug.
>>>       
>> Well, I imagine that the assumption is that any hook script is going
>> to be using the actual locale specified in LANG/LC_ALL/etc env
>> variables, so if we don't translate to that locale it'll get rather
>> confused by utf8 data in its command line.  As a general rule svn
>> translates from native -> utf8 on input and from utf8 -> native for
>> output.  Ironically, if the LANG/LC_ALL/etc env vars were being
>> followed by httpd this translation would be a noop, since the system
>> uses a utf8 locale...
>>     
>
> So whether the users of a repository (httpd or svnserve) may use the full
> unicode range for their files depends on the locale of the server? That feels
> just wrong ;-) I don't see how there are command line confusings...
>   
You're confusing the content of the SVN repository and hook scripts 
stored on the local filesystem. Paths in the first are always encoded in 
UTF-8. The latter naturally have to obey the server's locale.

-- Brane