pre-composed utf-8 patched subversion If you are using Japanese or some of european languages characters in name of files or directories on subversion repository which is also accessed from platforms other than Ma OS X. This patched version of subversion is for you. See the url below for details: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464 I made a little patch for the issue and a instruction of how to build binary with it lines below. curl -O http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/subversion-16.tar.gz curl -O http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/neon-8.tar.gz curl -O http://subversion.tigris.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/813/utf8precompose_macosx_2.patch tar xzf subversion-16.tar.gz tar xzf neon-8.tar.gz patch -p0 < utf8precompose_macosx_2.patch mv neon-8/neon subversion-16/subversion cd subversion-16/subversion ./configure --with-ssl make sudo make install # patched version of svn will be installed on /usr/local/bin, # make sure you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH environment variable. If you have trouble about using https with the binary you built, you may get /opt/local/bin/pkg-config as a result of `which pkg-config`, you can prepend environment variable before configure command like this: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig configure --with-ssl