[Svnmerge] Unicode in log messages

[Raman Gupta]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Benson Margulies
> <bimargulies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3500
>>
>> If the log contains, for example, Arabic text, svnmerge.py explodes with a
>> backtrace due to using the wrong codec.
> 
> I'll admit ignorance here -- hence my lack of response.  Does anyone
> else understand this recoding work?  Who wrote it?

Romulo Ceccon was the primary author, with some input from me. Check
this mailing list thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.svnmerge.devel/872

The revisions to review are 29666 with a few others after that one to
fix some regressions (searching for 29666 should find most or all of
them).

Cheers,
Raman