Checked it by examining the contents of the dump file (cat [dumpfile]). Where I expected to see:
client?\146s I instead got: client?s Then, after copying it over to the slave and running "load", without the "--bypass-prop-validation" flag, the dump is loaded without any errors complaining about the encoding of the properties. -- Srdan Dukic On 30 October 2012 16:51, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Srdan Dukic wrote on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 16:45:36 +1300: > > Thanks for that. Using svnadmin "dump" and then "load" worked. > > > > I didn't even have to pass the "--bypass-prop-validation" option to the > > load command, as it seems the non-UTF8 symbols were converted to a "?" by > > the dump command. > > How are you checking that? The 'dump' command doesn't know about UTF-8 > requirements for property values; it should preserve arbitrary byte > sequences. (In other words, the output of 'propget --strict | xxd' > should be identical between master and slave.) >
