Re: use of UTF-8

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:07:47AM +0100, peter.westlake@arm.com wrote:
> On 2002-05-31 01:55:19 Greg Hudson wrote:
> >On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:45, Greg Stein wrote:
> >> 3) untenable for the clients.
> >
> >I'd like to keep a little perspective here.
> >
> >If we don't solve the log message character set problem, then projects
> >are happy as long as:
> >
> > * They are willing to stick with ASCII log messages, or
> > * All their developers use the same character set, or
> > * All their developers have use a UTF-8 native locale
>
> This is not so much a refutation of "untenable for the clients"
> as an elaboration of it.

Right. The above three items are generally "out of band" which supports the
notion that the clients themselves can't figure out what to do. Programmatic
tools that want to operate on the text still require the charset
information. (examples: when displaying on a web page, search the text for
URLs and hyperlink them; or search the text for "issue #NNNN" and link that
into a bug database)

> For what it's worth, you have one more mostly-lurker here who feels very
> strongly that the logs should be kept in UTF-8.

:-)

Cheers,
-g

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