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Re: herding 1.1 issues into the corral

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-07-07 19:25:09 CEST

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Klaus Rennecke wrote:
>
>
>
>>Branko Čibej wrote:
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>>>Hm. I hope noone ever tries to port Subversion to an EBCDIC platform,
>>>because not one of these checks will work correctly there... :-\
>>>
>>>
>>Well, considering that the charset for URL is well defined, it may be
>>best not to use a system function that may use a system-dependent
>>charset. Hmm. Gonna rethink that a bit.
>>
>>
>>
>Didn't we ditch support for systems with non-ASCII-based execution
>character sets when we introduced svn_cmdline_printf and friends? There,
>we rely on apr_pvsprintf producing ASCII (and also UTF-8) numbers and
>such. (With ASCII-based, I mean with ASCII as a subset, like UTF-8 or
>ISO-8859-* and others. Not EBCDIC, for example.)
>
>
And in other places, too. Supporting EBCDIC would be a fair amount of
work; so Klaus, don't worry about it. I was more or less thinking out
loud. :-)

-- Brane

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