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Re: renaming svn_io_file_printf to svn_io_file_printf_from_utf8

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-12-05 00:14:28 CET

Erik Huelsmann wrote:

>In libsvn_diff there are a lot of calls to svn_io_file_printf which
>translates from utf8 to locale and does a printf to the specified file.
>
Which is especially bad when the "file" happens to be the Win32 console
output, which typically uses a different encoding than the "native".
Renaming this file won't help. We need a completely different output
mechanism if we want this code to ever work correctly in the Windows
command line.

>Anyone opposed to making this change?
>
>
I'd rather change the libsvn_diff API to accept a svn_stream handle.
That way GUI clients can use the diff output formatters in libsvn_diff, too.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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