Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit messages not 8-bit compatible

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I can't tell whether you're advocating the approach taken by Marcus
> (where we translate from UTF-8 to the local character set whenever we
> interact with the system) or not. We don't "avoid all this character
> set nonsense" if we do the translation, but not doing it means users'
> tools must all use UTF-8 (including all tools which interact with
> pathnames in the working directory).

The main point is (IMO, maybe Greg S has a different point) that the
character set nonsense is hidden from the user. Requiring all users
to run Plan 9 (the only OS i know of dealing exlusively with UTF-8)
would be nonsensical if anything. :-)

  // Marcus

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:22:26 2002