"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
&> > From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]
> >
> > Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> > > Use --locale:
> > >
> > > * to specify the charset of the log message being read by -F
> > >
> > > * to interpret working copy paths that will be read later on
> > > (i.e. 'svn up', with no args)
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the latter scenario... ?
> >
>
> I'm not sure that makes much sense either. The only possible reason to
> do this that I can think of is mounting a hard drive that was created a
> completely different codepage compared to the default codepage. Even
> then, I'm still not sure that the intervening layers could handle that.
>
> No harm gained in supporting it of course.
The point is, '--locale' is simply a way of manually overriding the
system locale. At a minimum, it's useful for testing our utf-8
abilities in a python test, no? :-)
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Received on Thu Jul 11 23:49:24 2002