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Re: Let's discuss about unicode compositions for filenames!

From: Hiroaki Nakamura <hnakamur_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:20:14 +0900

2012/1/30 Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>:
> I think the following caveats would be acceptable if they help
> with fixing the issue:
>
>  - An upgrade path which optionally requires people to check all
>   working copies out again, when either the server or the client is upgraded.
>   Note again, this must be _optional_. Only people affected by the issue
>   should have to make this choice, e.g. by changing configuration
>   parameters from the default settings. By default, existing working
>   copies should keep working after upgrading the client or server.
>   Because imagine what would happen if an upgrade of the server broke
>   many working copies checked out from a hosting service such as
>   sourceforge.net -- not good.
>
>  - An upgrade path which requires everyone to run 'svn upgrade' on their
>   working copies in order to use the new client version, but not the
>   new server version.
>
>  - An upgrade path which requires people to dump/load their existing
>   repositories in order to get rid of the problem. Existing
>   repositories which are left alone should keep working as they do
>   today, with problems on Mac OS X clients but no problems on other
>   clients (anything else would cause too much breakage and confusion).
>   E.g. this step could normalise all paths in all revisions. But keep in
>   mind the problem of name collisions which can happen when the same name
>   exists as both NFC and NFD. Something needs to happen in this case to
>   resolve the problem, ideally giving users a choice about how to proceed.

How about adding a config per repository for unicode-normalization?
Possible config values are
- none: input paths are not normalized.
- NFC: input paths are normalized to NFC.
- NFD: input paths are normalized to NFD.

For compatibility, repositories which don't have this config are treated as
'none' specified.

Clients have to look this config and will normalize paths appropriately.

-- 
)Hiroaki Nakamura) hnakamur_at_gmail.com
Received on 2012-02-08 16:20:47 CET

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