Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> Note that the last point is much more important for svn than for other
> projects using exclusively Unicode internally (such as some GUI
> toolkits). The latter normally don't have to deal with arbitrary texts,
> just texts which appear in menus and dialogs. There might be an editor
> widget but it's not the only play in town. Svn on the other hand is the
> one and only tool to use. Imagine somebody at a research library who's
> translating documents for which a new encoding had to be devised. It
> should not be impossible to use svn. If it would be the people who set
> up the system would have to rule out using svn from the beginning, even
> without accute problems, since problems might appear at some time.
I think you are misunderstanding something here. svn does not recode
_file contents_. The research library can use whatever character
encoding they like in their files and have them version controlled by
svn.
> - conversion of file data should be optional. The file/directory
> attributes which are already used can be extended to a flag specifying
> encoding of a file. The default might be UTF-8. If a directory has
> an attribute all contained files are encoded this way (unless
> overwritten). The encoding for files can be explicitly specified.
That would mean _adding_ the possibility to have files recoded, since
it's not done now. What already exists though is the possibility to
set a property on each file with its character encoding. This would
be for the benefit of external tools, since svn itself doesn't care
what encoding the file is in.
> There is one place where I don't see a problem with using UTF-8
> throughout if this is desirable and this are the places handling file
> names.
And that is where it's mainly used. The other places where it's
currently used are: user ids, URLs, property names, log messages and
error messages. _Not_ file contents.
> Please think about this and don't dimiss this just because this is not
> how it's done today and not because Apache doesn't need it.
How about dismissing it because it _is_ how it's done today? ;-)
// Marcus
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Received on Mon Jul 22 13:05:16 2002