Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:48:34AM -0700, Daniel Rall wrote:
>>>>> Inform Python to use a UTF character set, since the $LastChangedDate$
>>>>> keyword is expanded to non-ASCII characters in environments with
>>>>> multi-byte character sets.
>>>>>
>>>> Ah, I didn't realise Python actually interpreted those comments as well.
>>>>
>>>> However: how do we know that the user's locale is UTF-8?
>>> No, but it has a much better chance of working than plain ASCII (which
>>> is a subset of UTF-8).
>> Good point. I guess the only ways to solve this properly are:
>>
>> a. Remove the LastChangedDate keyword from this file,
>> b. Restrict the LastChangedDate to US English/ASCII (yuk), or
>
> I'd also be fine with (a). I'm not a fan of spattering these keywords
> all over our source files.
I don't mind the keywords not existing in any of our C files, but for
any scripts that may get installed somewhere for managing a Subversion
install I think should have them, so it's easy to look at the file and
know which version you have, especially if you're working on the setup
done by somebody else.
Regards,
Blair
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Received on Wed Apr 25 01:03:27 2007