Can you propedit the property in the repository you're syncing from? Failing that, see normalize_string() in subversion/svnsync/sync.c.
Daniel Trebbien wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 22:25:11 +0000: > I am attempting to use `svnsync` to create a local mirror of > `svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/nano`, but every time it fails at revision 619 > (http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=nano&revision=619): > ... > Copied properties for revision 617. > Transmitting file data ... > Committed revision 618. > Copied properties for revision 618. > svnsync: Error while replaying commit > > > The problem is that the log message for revision 619, 'Added Galician > translation by Jacobo Tarrío', was encoded in ISO-8859-1, and this is an > illegal > UTF-8 byte sequence starting at the accented 'i'. > > I attempted to set `log-encoding = ISO-8859-1` in my `~/.subversion/config`, > but this did not work. Moreover, looking through the source of `svnsync`, I > do not immediately see how to fix this problem. How do I tell `svnsync` to > treat > the log messages from the repository as ISO-8859-1-encoded strings rather than > UTF-8-encoded strings? >
