David Glasser wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
>
>> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Working on the NFC/NFD awareness of the Subversion client, I soon
>>> realised this issue also affects URLs.
>>>
>>> However, many of the textual identifiers we use in the client (such as
>>> changelists) are also UTF-8 encoded. How should Subversion behave if a
>>> user sets a changelist with NFC encoded characters and later (somehow)
>>> tries to retrieve that same changelist using NFD encoded characters?
>>> Giving an error message with the changelist name will look strange to
>>> the user: the changelist identifier looks exactly the same to the
>>> user.
>>>
>>> So, do we have to do Unicode-aware string comparison for
>>> other-than-filename-identifiers? If so, which ones?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> We only have to normalize keys in the repository, which means filenames.
>> Everything else is either not indexed, or stored only locally in the WC. If
>> it's local, and the user or OS magically changes the normalization during
>> the lifetime of the WC ...
>>
>
> Or, well, to expand: we only have to normalize keys in the repository
> (because they are shared by multiple clients), or things that we let
> the OS reinterpret for us (like filenames).
>
Ah, indeed. I just conflated the two since we happen to use filenames in
both contexts.
-- Brane
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Received on 2008-04-03 09:29:46 CEST