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Can't checkout svn repository that contains filenames in some UTF-8 symbols (Linux)

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Description

Hello.

Can't checkout svn repository that contains filenames in some UTF-8 symbols (Linux Debian 9 and OpenBSD)

Rex version: 1.6.0
Subversion client version: 1.9.5 (r1770682)

filename examples:

  1. Grüßen
  2. ブランチ

I can checkout this repository from shell:

LC_ALL= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 svn --non-interactive --trust-server-cert --username 'user' --password 'user' checkout https://host/svn/path/ /path/

but can't via Rex::SCM::Subversion because it force set LC_ALL=C in Rex::Interface::Exec::Local at line 75

LC_CTYPE= should be a current system locale

related stackoverflow topic about SVN-client: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2116718/svn-error-cant-convert-string-from-native-encoding-to-utf-8

Best Regards, Ilya Pavlov

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Start in Rex::Interface::Exec::Local at line 75, then trace how Rex::SCM::Subversion invokes the checkout command. Compare its locale environment with the working shell command using UTF-8 filenames. Done means checkout succeeds for names such as Grüßen and ブランチ on the reported systems without forcing an incompatible locale.

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linux, perl
Domain
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Issue type
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Estimated time
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