Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> This subject has never been brought up before; I wasn't aware it was
> Subversion's responsibility to deal with every possible unicode
> encoding. You make a good point, though. Subversion definitely
> *could* grow a new "svn:encoding" property, convert encodings to UTF8
> for mergeability, and convert back. It would be a bit of work to
> write this feature, but nothing horrible.
>
> Still, it still feels like a post-1.0 change to me. Not high priority
> at the moment.
I agree. There's nothing controversial about supporting all unicode
encodings, but it's just a matter of prioritizing. IMHO, we should
tackle this after 1.0, and tell people to use UTF-8 until then.
Obviously not ideal, but then, life *is* pain, as Westley said in The
Princess Bride.
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Received on Wed Jul 16 21:24:10 2003