Re: Poor support for \ on windows from the C API?

Arild Fines wrote:
[snip]
>
> I never really understood why this isn't handled in libsvn_client. Is there
> any scenario in which you *don't* want to perform this
> conversion/canonization? If every client of the API basically needs to
> create it's own infrastructure to do this conversion anyway, wouldn't it be
> better to prevent this redundancy by having libsvn_client handling it?
>
> --
> Arild

I'm not entirely sure, either...but I think it may be because libraries
want to call each other and so doing the utf8 conversion every time a
public function is called would not be good. Perhaps a core developer
can correct me or explain more fully?

DJ

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Received on Fri Nov 14 23:05:23 2003