Re: use of UTF-8 (was: [RFC/PATCH] commit messages not 8-bit compatible)

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:00:12PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:

> Right. If the API has a text string, then SVN says that text string is in
> UTF-8. If we have standard properties that are to be interpreted as text,
> then those will be stored as UTF-8 strings (within the binary property).
>
> While APR doesn't talk about character sets for its API (wrongly, so, IMO),
> the Subversion libraries *do*. Anything that is text will be UTF-8. Since
> paths and URLs hold "characters" (but are hard to call "text"), they also
> use UTF-8 for their character set.

+1 on all of this.

making an arbitrary decision to use UTF-8, while it might feel like
we're 'imposing policy on users', solves a ton of problems at a fairly
reasonable cost, and seems like the only sane way to go.

-garrett

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garrett rooney                    Remember, any design flaw you're 
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net      sufficiently snide about becomes  
http://electricjellyfish.net/     a feature.       -- Dan Sugalski
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