On 17.12.2014 21:48, Matthias Ludwig wrote: > There is an error in this string "//a//o\u0308". > It should be "/a/o\u0308". But this does not change the behaviour. I've > tried it again, the problem persists. > > / -> slash for path separator > a -> name of subfolder > / -> slash for path separator > o -> for "o" > \u -> escaping: here comes a UTF-16 code in hex > 0308 unicode Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' > > Java String are internaly stored in Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 or whatever, it's > internal - you tell java what you want, when you pull it out) > The String ist therefore converted in the Runtime.getRuntime().exec method.
... and what does Java do with the String arguments to this method? The javadocs don't say ... I suspect it converts them to some default character set, which may well be ISO-8859-1. That would explain why the combining diaeresis gets converted to its non-combining version; of course, that would still be a conversion bug, but at least it's sort of understandable. :) Since you're driving Subversion from Java, I'd really recommend to use JavaHL here instead of jumping through command-line hoops: it's a lot more consistent about string representation. -- Brane
