Marcus Comstedt wrote:
>=?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
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>>I must have missed this in your earlier patches. IMHO, only path names
>>should be in (transformed to) UTF-8. Property contents, including log
>>messages, shouldn't be touched.
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>Hm. Any particular reason? Apart from breaking the "all strings
>passed to libsvn_* shall be UTF-8"-paradigm,
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I never heard of such a paradigm. Yes, all _paths_ passed to the svn
libraries should be UTF-8 and canonicalized, but not all strings. I'm
sorry I didn't notice that berfore in your patches. AFAIK we never
discussed canonicalizing anything but paths.
>it would mean that two
>persons, one using a Latin-1 charset and one using an UTF-8 charset,
>wouldn't be able to properly read each others log messages even if
>they are restricting themselves to the common subset of characters.
>
>Since there are no properties on log messages, how do you propose that
>the actual character encoding for a log message be recorded?
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I'd say that problem should be solved by project policy, not by
Subversion. Just like we don't require a particular repository layout.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:24:00 2002