Testing the tool darcs-to-git, it crashes on one repository because:

Illegal character "\b" in raw string "Toujours en DISCUSS a l'IEG\bSG"

This is apparently because it relies on darcs changes --xml and this one does not escape the characters like \b when they are in the commit messages, therefore proudcing illegal XML.

I have attached a patch bundle, to be applied to current screened (`darcs 
clone https:/darcs.net/screened`). This should fix your problem. Could 
you please try and see if that works better? If it does, I am willing to 
make a new bug-fix release (2.18.5).

Attachments

• lower-the-upper-bound-for-http_client_tls.dpatch

Sorry, it did not help. Testing the output of 'darcs changes --xml' with xmllint:

/tmp/ch.xml:50015: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 56548
    <name>P&#56548;s approuve</name>

Indeed, the commit messages were in Latin-1 at the beginning of the repository and are in UTF-8 now. All commit messages with non-ASCII Latin-1 characters experience the above problem.
Suggestion: invalid UTF-8 sequences could be replaced by ??? or something similar. At least, the XML would be legal.

I agree. The patch I made did not yet do the correct conversion for all patch metadata.
Please try with newly attached bundle instead.
Note: you should obliterate the two patches from previous bundle and also pull.

Attachments

• resolve-issue2732_-generate-xml-using-the-xml-package.dpatch

Or apply to a fresh clone.