 (defvar svn-status-svn-file-coding-system 'undecided-unix
   "The coding system that is used to save files that are loaded as
 parameter or data files via the svn command line client.
-It is used in the following functions: `svn-prop-edit-do-it', `svn-log-edit-done'")
+It is used in the following functions: `svn-prop-edit-do-it', `svn-log-edit-done'.
+You could set it to 'utf-8")
 
 (defcustom svn-status-use-ido-completion
   (fboundp 'ido-completing-read)

                                svn-status-propedit-file-list "")
    (setq svn-status-propedit-file-list nil)
    (svn-run async t 'propset "propset"
         svn-status-propedit-property-name
                 "--targets" svn-status-temp-arg-file
                 "-F" (concat svn-status-temp-dir "svn-prop-edit.txt" svn-temp-suffix))
    (unless async (svn-status-remove-temp-file-maybe)))
  (when svn-status-pre-propedit-window-configuration
    (set-window-configuration svn-status-pre-propedit-window-configuration)))

                   (unless svn-status-recursive-commit "--non-recursive")
                   "--targets" svn-status-temp-arg-file
                   "-F" svn-status-temp-file-to-remove
                   (when (eq svn-status-svn-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
                     '("--encoding" "UTF-8"))
                   svn-status-default-commit-arguments))
    (set-window-configuration svn-status-pre-commit-window-configuration)
    (message "svn-log editing done")))
