Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file

["J.C. Wren" <jcwren at jcwren dot com>]

I updated my Cygwin install a couple days ago, and have ran into a
problem with Subversion mangling the .svn/entries file.

Before the problem occurred, I had done a 'svn status' with no issues.
 I committed a file, ran 'svn status' again, and received the
following error message:

   svn: Error at entry 1 in entries file for '.':
   svn: Invalid escape sequence

Looking in the .svn/entries file, the first file name should read

     http://amzatlanta.com/svn_amzatlanta/sx_gfm/trunk
     http://amzatlanta.com/svn_amzatlanta/sx_gfm

but is actually encoded as

     h\x74\x74p://\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61.\x63\x6f\x6d/\x73\x76n_\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61/\x73\x78_g\x66\x6d/\x74\x72\x75nk
     h\x74\x74p://\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61.\x63\x6f\x6d/\x73\x76n_\x61mz\x61\x74l\x61n\x74\x61/\x73\x78_g\x66\x6d

Attempting to check out the repository into a new directory gives the
same error.  On another machine with a slightly older install of
Cygwin had no issues.  I was also able to check it out on a Linux box
(I did this to make sure the repository hadn't gotten corrupted
somehow).

One person in #cygwin speculated it might be a locale issue.  I have
not changed anything regarding my locale, but I did see some
significant changes in locale handling have recently been introduced.

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