charset neutral? pls solve this

Something that Karl mentioned got me thinking, and made me realize that we
*already* have a bug due to charset issues. If we are charset neutral, then
I see no possible way to solve this:

    In the log message output, we count the number of newlines, and display
    that count (see clients/cmdline/log-cmd.c::num_lines).

Without knowing the charset, it cannot know that a '\n' or '\r' byte is
actually a newline. Maybe that is one half of a UCS-2 encoding of a
character? Maybe it is part of a shifted character in Shift-JIS or the like.

At a minimum, I'd like to at least use this datapoint as a way to
demonstrate that charset neutral just really isn't a good option.

[ plus my comments about the fact that SVN is library-based and binds with
  apps a lot more tightly than CVS ever did or will; thus, we actually
  operate in a different realm than CVS; thus, CVS's neutrality is not
  really a very good empirical example of the viability of charset-neutral ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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