Bug#363983: subversion: Subversion (svn) can't run without locales, it dies immediatly

[Peter Samuelson]

tags 363983 upstream wontfix
thanks

[Przemyslaw Grzywacz]
> There is currently a major bug with locales on debian, which makes
> them unusable (what you can see in System Information) and it makes
> svn completly useless too. svn dies immediately, it doesn't even show
> the help screen.

Subversion depends heavily on your locale info not only for display
purposes, but for interpreting your config files and translating the
filenames in your working copy to and from UTF-8.  It really does not
want to get this information wrong, so I think the developers are
afraid to just fall back on something like 'POSIX'.

I'm calling this one 'wontfix' because I'm pretty sure it's a conscious
decision.  I'll ping upstream about it, though, to make sure.
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