Symptoms

Your elastic image is unable to download certain files from your Subversion repository, and you see errors similar to this:

Command output:
svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:
svn: components/file-N?\195?\181chstes.gif

Cause

The locale on the elastic image Operating System is not configured correctly.

Resolution

Try setting your locale to UTF8. For example in Linux, if you want to set the locale to German:

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

This needs to be done for the user that's starting the Bamboo Agent.

If you're using Maven, you may also need to set this property in your pom.xml:

<properties>
   <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>