Re: Call For Votes: converting log messages to UTF-8

citerar Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net>:

> "Henrik Svensson" <innotron@telia.com> writes:
> > The problem with this is that a resonable complete subversion client
> > needs to be able to convert between several charsets. And if a text
is
> > stored with a (to the client) unknown charset it can not be
displayed.
>
> In the proposal under discussion, the client *would* know the charset,
> because the server would store an indication of the charset.
>
>

Which charset would it know? Every client that ever will be written to
use subversion will have to know which charset is used by all the other
clients. An easy way to avoid this mess, is to have a super charset
which is a superset of all other charsets. Which we actually have,
unicode/UTF-8.

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:10:54 2002