[cvsnt] CVSNT server tries to write non UTF-8 characters in fileattr.xml

[Erik Larsson]

Hi,

I'm using CVSNT Server hosted on Windows (XP, Vista), and recently I've 
been getting errors when using the server with non-ASCII characters 
related to the fileattr.xml files. An example commit error message:

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RCS file: /ROOT/CVS Documents/Personligt/Troféer/Lösning för den som 
vill sk...pdf,v
done
XML error at line 0: xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant : char out of range

Checking in Lösning för den som vill sk...pdf;
/ROOT/CVS Documents/Personligt/Troféer/Lösning för den som vill 
sk...pdf,v  <--  Lösning för den som vill sk...pdf
initial revision: 1.1
done
XML error at line 0: output conversion failed due to conv error, bytes 
0xF6 0x72 0x20 0x64

XML error at line 0: encoder error
Unable to create D:/Documents and Settings/Erik/cvsnt_repository/CVS 
Documents/Personligt/Troféer/CVS/fileattr.xml
cvs server: cannot write /ROOT/CVS 
Documents/Personligt/Troféer/CVS/fileattr.xml: No such file or directory
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Basically, CVSNT generates incorrect XML files, encoding characters in 
ISO-8859-1 (maybe cp1252) where they should be encoded in UTF-8, thus 
validating the XML format.
This error goes away when I switch the server to Unicode mode, but I 
have clients that don't support UTF-8 file names in CVS so I can't run 
it that way.
This has never been a problem earlier... I have been using non-ASCII 
(Latin1-style) characters in file names earlier without problems. I 
think these problems started when I upgraded from 2.5.03 to 2.5.04 .

Can this be worked around? Is there a fix coming? Latest build from 
www.cvsnt.org/archive ( cvsnt-server-2.5.05.3240.msi 
<http://www.cvsnt.org/archive/cvsnt-server-2.5.05.3240.msi> ) still 
exhibits this issue.

- Erik