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

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:22:20PM +0100, Fazekas Miklss wrote:
> I vote for UTF-8. If you don't recommend a specific encoding, all tools have
> deal with all kinds of encoding to be usefull for everyone. (When going with
> UTF8, UFT8 <-> local converson is enough.)
>
> For example CVSWeb for SVN?! What codepage shall it use to generate it's
> html pages?

Right. While it knows the *output* codepage (based on the Accept-Language
header), you now have to deal with an *input* codepage. And to hope that the
translation is even possible.

Your comment is nice and succinct: when dealing with UTF8, the conversion is
almost always "UTF-8 into what is interesting to *me*". Meaning: you don't
have to know about all the character sets that *others* are using. Just your
own.

Cheers,
-g

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