Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit messages not 8-bit compatible

On 29 May 2002, Karl Fogel wrote:

> cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> > Log messages are just revision properties, and Subversion claims
> > support for binary property values. So, even if, client side, log
> > messages were limited to 7bit (which I think should *not* happen), we
> > would still see this bug when someone used the upper ASCII characters
> > on some other property, e.g., a node's "svn:ignore" property value.
>
> A few words about that.
>
> Yeah, we should definitely support 8-bit chars in log messages. On
> the repository side, the revision property value is quite capable of
> storing it, because it can store any binary value, like Mike says.

Yeah, I just made the fix to not have svn blow up in my face every
time I forget to not use swedish in logs.
After a while it gets annoying.

> The next problem in the pipeline (based on what Ulf Tigerstedt
> encountered) is that the message has to be properly XML-encoded before
> being sent over the wire -- necessary whether UTF-8 or full binary.
>
> Ulf, want to try a patch that does one or both of these things?

Yeah, I'm ready to test anything.

BTW, infa.abo.fi has a newsserver with subversion-dev transferred
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Really the best way to read maillists.

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