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

Jon Trowbridge <trow@ximian.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Just so that I understand: does this proposal imply a policy that all
> log messages are stored in UTF-8? Or does a +1 here imply support for
> storing log messages in an unknown and unknowable charset?

There are two proposals here. One of them converts the log message to
UTF-8 at input time, the other doesn't (by default).

The repository is always storing a string of bytes. That string of
bytes might happen to be a UTF-8 encoding of something, though.

I don't know which proposal you're thinking of +1'ing :-).

-K

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:12:10 2002