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

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > It sounds like we don't have a lot of consensus here (which is
> > unfortunate for Marcus, who I think signed onto this task with the
> > understanding that there was a pre-existing choice). Karl seems to side
> > with Marcus on translating because UTF-8 and the local charset for all
> > interesting values; Mike and I would rather be charset-neutral; Branko
> > wants to use UTF-8 for paths and be charset-neutral for everything
> > else. (I'm not sure why pathnames deserve special treatment.)
>
> No, I'd also prefer not to enforce a charset, but I think a good
> compromise solution available. What if we simply say:
>
> "Subversion log messages may use any charset, so long as no byte in
> the message is zero."

how does this solve the "i'm writing a gui svn client and i need to
shove the log message in a text box to display it" problem. they
still need to know the charset to be able to display it correctly, and
if we don't provide either a standard char set for log messages or a
way to figure out the char set, there is no way to make a client that
will work with all subversion repositories automatically.

-garrett

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garrett rooney                    Remember, any design flaw you're 
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http://electricjellyfish.net/     a feature.       -- Dan Sugalski
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