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Re: svn commit: r12919 - in trunk/subversion: include libsvn_subr mod_dav_svn tests/clients/cmdline

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2005-02-10 14:20:45 CET

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> wrote on 02/09/2005 11:04:37 PM:

> Branko Čibej wrote:
> > kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> >> + if (svn_ctype_iscntrl (*q)
> >> + && ! ((*q == '\n') || (*q == '\r') || (*q == '\t')))
> >>
> > These are UTF-8 strings, so you should define character value
constants
> > in svn_ctype.h and use them here.
>
> Are you sure that we should? I believe we use "\n" etc. all over the
place in
> UTF-8 strings. It would only be wrong in a non-ASCII-compatible system,
and
> the only one that I have heard of Subversion being ported to is an
EBCDIC one
> that was discussed on the list and presumably has a satisfactory way of
> handling this.

The way we are handling it in the EBCDIC port is to do exactly what brane
suggested. We defne character constants that escape the literal to UTF-8
and then modified the code to use the constants.

Thanks

Mark

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