Bug#290774: fixed in subversion 1.3.1-3

[Peter Samuelson]

[Vincent Lefevre]
> This is a very bad idea, as the encoding of the files from the
> repository is common for every user, thus does not necessarily
> correspond to the locales.

subversion has to guess, one way or another.  Guessing that you want
your files to look like UTF-8 but your filenames to look like KOI8-R
seems pretty dumb.

If you want to edit UTF-8 content, you should probably be using a UTF-8
locale - I doubt most text editors will do the right thing otherwise.
And for XML tools that expect a file to be UTF-8-encoded, what will
they think of filename references in some foreign encoding?

> Note that upstream disagrees concerning this patch, e.g.
> 
>   http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=115189

No - they're of mixed opinions.  Brane disagrees, Julian doesn't:

    http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-04/0785.shtml

Ivan thinks keywords should not be localised at all, which also solves
the problem, but that's a lot harder to implement.
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