On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:15, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
Hmm. Given the presence of 'mac_roman.py' in the traceback, I wonder if Issue 6202 has any relevance here?
Only partially so. That character (LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE) is not supported by Mac-roman, so the codec is right in complaining that it can't encode it. And yes, had svnmerge been run in an UTF-8 locale, it would have worked fine.
However, I think it is svnmerge that is to blame here. It implements construct_merged_log_message, which really should do its job in a locale-independent way - as long as it uses the locale encoding, it can always run into problems.
Fortunately, svn has been support --xml for "svn log" for a number of releases. So svnmerge should switch to use that; it will allow parsing arbitrary characters in a log message, independent of what the terminal encoding is.
Sounds like I need to file a bug against svnmerge.py w/ Martin's suggestion.
-Brett