Re: First impressions...

Jon Trowbridge <trow@ximian.com> writes:

> At least with utf-8, 7-bit ascii stuff always just works. Choosing
> utf-8 is more forward-looking than ASCII, and less US/Western
> Euro-centric than iso8859-1.

I don't have a particular problem with svn assuming that 7-bit
characters are ASCII. It's when it starts making assumptions about
octets with the eight bit set we're getting into trouble. Making an
incorrect assumption is far worse than not making any at all.

> Now it might be reasonable for you to be able to specify a default
> encoding that the client would automatically attach to every text file
> you created. Anyway, a good client should be setting the svn:mime-type
> and svn:encoding properties automatically, so that the user doesn't have
> to worry about it.[1]

Yes, this is a solution I'd much rather see. The other one is bogus.

  // Marcus

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:00 2006