Re: Convert cmdline args to UTF-8 all at once at program start?

Julian Foad wrote:
> Paul Burba has just sent a patch to do native-to-UTF-8 conversion of
> command-line arguments right at the start of the program, before
> argument processing. That's because our argument processing assumes an
> ASCII subset for all the strings it needs to match, but he's converting
> from EBCDIC.

I've not seen Paul's change, but does this cause any misinteraction with
a commandline like:

   svn commit -m <Shift-JIS log message> --encoding Shift-JIS ...

Seems a native-to-UTF-8 conversion of that log message is likely to fail
unless Shift-JIS (in this case) is the native encoding.

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