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

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

> I'm not sure I understand how this helps.
>
> He is sending UTF-8, and that's stimulating the bug. So recoding all
> commit messages as UTF-8 isn't going to help, right?

Que? What makes you think he's sending UTF-8? I'm pretty sure he is
sending Latin-1.

> But anyway, how are we going to "recode" commit messages to UTF-8, if
> we don't know what encoding they're coming from?

They are coming from the encoding specified by his locale.

> And what format are
> you storing them in in the revision property? (i.e., What
> circumstances are included in "when you want to look at them"?)

Messages are stored in UTF-8. Reverse conversion is done by `svn log'
when it prints the message to stdout.

  // Marcus

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:25:01 2002