svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
May 09, 2007
SVN
Filenames containing "special characters" can cause an annoying Subversion error message:
From the subversion book:
Errors like this typically occur when the Subversion client has received a UTF-8 string from the repository, but not all of the characters in that string can be represented using the encoding of the current locale. For example, if your locale is en_US but a collaborator has committed a Japanese filename, you're likely to see this error when you receive the file during an svn update.
To fix this error message you have to set your current locale appropriately: