Version 8.0.1 and some earlier versions of SmartSVN circumvent the well-known "umlaut bug" of svn in OSX, but 8.5 RC 2 apparently does not.
In
http://support.smartsvn.com/index.php?/SmartSVN/Knowledgebase/Article/View/401/55/problems-with-umlauts--in-filenames-on-mac-os-x
we learn that SmartSVN for OSX has additional code to solve the problem of special characters in file names.
But what about version 8.5?
More details:
Let's say we have a file "Änderungen.txt" in our repository. Checking out with SmartSVN 8.0.1 we get what we expect:
Änderungen.txt 23 Unchanged
Looking at this same file from the command line reveals the "umlaut bug":
svn status
? A?\204?\136nderungen.txt
! Änderungen.txt
And, similarly, now in SmartSVN 8.5 RC 2:
Änderungen.txt 23 Missing
Änderungen.txt 23 Unversioned
This seems to be a step back. It is just this feature, to be able to handle Umlauts in file names, what makes SmartSVN superior to the competition for me.
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