Who’s successfully running a Subversion client on Mac OS X? I ask because I’m trying to access my repository from my new Powerbook and I’m not having much success. There are messages in Subversion’s mailing list archives and on Google about how an incompatible locale setting makes the Mac OS X Terminal application throw up when it gets international characters in file names (Subversion returns the unhelpful error message ‘Can’t recode string’) but I can’t see the actual solution to the problem anywhere. More to the point, why doesn’t it just work out of the box and how can there possibly be an incompatible locale setting when the Terminal app is supposedly using UTF-8? | 
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I was playing around with subversion a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, I had to put
LANG=”de_DE.UTF-8″
export LANG
into my ~/.bash_profile file (using 10.3.5) to get German umlauts working ok. I assume you’ll have to change the de_DE to your locale, of course.
Aha, so maybe for me it needs to be something like LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″. Hm, OK. I’ll try it tonight, thanks!
It worked! Vielen Dank, Herr Kern!
Glad to help, Sir! :-)
I found this tutorial a few weeks ago, hopefully it helps.
http://maczealots.com/tutorials/xcode-svn/
If you want to do common operations on a Subversion repository directly from Finder, consider those scripts:
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/svnsubversionscriptsforfinder1.0.html