Tip: Subversion and accentuated characters in commit messages
One of the good things about Subversion is that all his internals (paths, commit messages, etc) are always UTF-8 encoded. I think that was one of the brightest decisions they made.
Yet, for quite some time I was getting errors when I tried to use commit messages with accentuated characters:
subversion/libsvnsubr/utf.c:466: (aprerr=22)
In my case, the problem is that I didn't have a proper LANG environment variable. If run svn ci like this:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 svn ci
the problem goes away.
Now, having a LANG environment is not something I want just now. I still use software that does not work well with LANG. So my solution was to create a small shell script in my utilities directory like this:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Make SVN commits work with accentuated characters
#
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG
exec /usr/local/bin/svn $@
Nirvana!
