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

From: Henrik Svensson <innotron_at_telia.com>
Date: 2002-05-31 18:39:33 CEST

My vote is for first one. Let the client convert the log message
from/to the local charset to/from unicode/UTF-8. I'm sure that
Subversion will be a better project for more people then. There are a
lot of people on the earth using languagages that needs more latin-1.

Henrik

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

> It seems to me that everyone's pretty much stated their reasons for
> and against now. We're no longer adding new material to the
> discussion, we're just reiterating points already made.
>
> So, I'd like to propose a vote.
>
> I hope we all agree that we're just choosing a default behavior for
> the client here -- users can get the alternate behavior by setting or
> unsetting a config option in ~/.subversion/options. I.e., we should
> offer conversion to UTF-8 for those who want it, and should not
> unconditionally *force* conversion to UTF-8 for those who know they
> don't want it. The only question is how we behave out-of-the-box.
>
> (If this is controversial, I guess we're not ready to vote yet.)
>
> The two choices are
>
> [ ] By default, recode log messages from user input to UTF-8, using
> the locale to get a best guess for the original encoding of the
> user input.
>
> [ ] By default, do no re-encoding of log messages. Store exactly
> the byte sequence the user enters. When printing log messages,
> the svn client would simply assume that the byte '\n' is a line
> end (it prints out the number of lines in each message as part
> of the msg header). When printing out the log message as xml,
> we'd do our best to escape bytes that are incompatible with
> being xml content; this probably implies treating the message
> as Latin-1 or something, but I haven't thought carefully about
> that.
>
> Don't worry about implementation difficulty. Both of these choices
> are easy (and indeed, if we want to support both, we need to implement
> both, which implies changing the log_msg params to counted-length
> strings internally no matter what).
>
> -Karl
>
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