svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding: | May 09, 2007-->
May 09, 2007
Filenames containing "special characters" can cause an annoying Subversion error message:
svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding: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:
macbook:~ stefan$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 macbook:~ stefan$ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL="C/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/C/C" macbook:~ stefan$ svn update
Dan says:
Thanks for this tip, it seems to be working and my checkout is underway again :)
solomon71 says:
Gracias, this worked great for me. Update is underway for a huge project. I didn’t have the time to do a full checkout.