Solution for Chinese character garbled code in Subversion hooks script

Apr 27, 2023#Lunix #Subversion122

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When writing SVN Hooks scripts, there may be issues with Chinese characters appearing as garbled text when retrieving commit messages using svnlook. The solution is to add an environment variable at the beginning of the script, with the value of LANG being set to en_US.UTF-8 or other commonly used values like zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_CN.GBK, or zh_CN.GB2312. This will resolve the problem of Chinese characters appearing as garbled text in SVN hooks.

When writing SVN Hooks scripts, there may be Chinese garbled characters when obtaining commit comments and other content through svnlook, similar to the situation shown in the figure below.

svnlook-log

The solution is very simple, just add an environment variable at the beginning of the script:

# The value of LANG may be different in different system environments
# Common values include en_US.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_CN.GBK, zh_CN.GB2312, etc.
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

svn hooks encounter garbled characters in Chinese