Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, [UTF-8] Branko Ä^Libej wrote:
>
>
>>Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I just remembered another "remaining issue"... printf on Windows doesn't
>>>>understand positional arguments. What now?
>>>>
>>>>-- Brane
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Heh. Do what Greg Hudson (?) suggested some time ago and implement it in
>>>apr_vformatter()?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I guess that's the only way...
>>
>
> Oooks we have to replace the stdio printf() calls, anyway. There are about
> 200-300 calls that needs to be fixed. I'll do that.
>
> I think we have a little encoding problem, however. If we do
> svn_cmdline_printf(pool, fmt, ...)
> expecting all string arguments (including fmt) to be UTF-8, then we can
> convert the string. The problem, however, is that numbers will be output
> in the native encoding by the APR routines. They are just ASCII, but may
> this be a problem anyway? Do we have a similar problem in
> svn_stream_printf? I think it expects it arguments as UTF-8?
>
> What do you think?
Delay the UTF-8 to locale transcoding until right before the
text is written to the console. Similarly, convert the input
arguments from the locale encoding to UTF-8. Only use UTF-8
internally so that your interfaces are consistent and simple.
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Received on Thu May 6 19:00:02 2004