[this message is about the release branch, but it likely applies to the trunk as well] Hello, in boost/status/ there are files with strange names. I suspect these have been created by some test belonging to Boost.Filesystem. I further suspect that these tests assume a certain character encoding. The problem is that the subversion client looks at these filenames and produces error messages like svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8': svn: fstream_test_?\226?\158?\128 The directory listing displays a lot of strange looking things: drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 boo -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 365 Oct 9 05:20 boost_dynamic_bitset_tests -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 395 Oct 7 14:43 borland_logo.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 335 Oct 9 05:32 cube-fr.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 333 Oct 9 05:32 cube.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 3697 Oct 9 07:30 demo_save.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 388 Oct 9 07:29 demofile.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 353 Oct 9 05:32 disconnected-fr.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 82 Oct 9 06:33 filename drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fsream_test_lpath -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fstream_test_foo -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fstream_test_??? -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 1249 Oct 7 14:43 intel_logo.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 553 Oct 7 14:43 kai_logo.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 956 Oct 9 05:32 kevin-bacon2.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 763 Oct 7 14:43 ms_logo.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 2348 Oct 7 14:43 notes.html -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 07:53 pattern.temp2 -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 15 Oct 9 07:53 pattern.test -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 450 Oct 9 05:32 random.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 9 Oct 9 06:42 rng.saved -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 28 Oct 9 05:11 temp.tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 46 Oct 9 07:28 test.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 46 Oct 9 07:28 test2.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 636 Oct 9 07:28 test3.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 12 Oct 9 05:17 test_facet_file.out -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 8 Oct 9 07:28 testfile2 -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 49 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_binary_archive.hpp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 36 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_text_archive.hpp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 144 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_text_warchive.hpp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 296 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_xml_archive.hpp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 296 Oct 9 07:05 testfile_xml_warchive.hpp -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 186 Oct 9 05:20 tmp_file -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 454 Oct 9 05:32 triangular-fr.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 455 Oct 9 05:32 triangular-kk.dot -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 655840 Oct 9 04:57 wave_slex_lexer.dfa -rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 5690 Oct 7 14:43 win32-notes-map.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 boost boost 96 Oct 9 05:21 xx drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 ??? This directory is used for maintaining test-related stuff, e.g. the list of expected failures. IMO, the same directory shouldn't be a target for automatically generated files which do not contain anything meaningful. Please, could these files and directories (in order of preference): 1. be created elsewhere and 2. be deleted automatically after tests, or 3. be added to the svn:ignore property of the directory? Regards, m