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Re: svnadmin upgrade output message i18n issue

From: Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:29 +0800

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Philip Martin
<philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Philip Martin
>> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>>> Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Philip Martin
>>>> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>>>>> Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So it appears the UTF8 to native conversion is missing from
>>>>>> repos_notify_handler. I think repos_notify_handler should be using
>>>>>> svn_stream_printf_from_utf8 rather than svn_stream_printf.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've fixed trunk to use svn_cmdline_cstring_from_utf8 and proposed it
>>>>> for 1.8.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As GETTEXT(3) man pages said, If and only if
>>>> defined(HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET),
>>>> your commit is OK.
>>>>
>>>> So you should check HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET when you use
>>>> svn_cmdline_cstring_from_utf8.
>>>
>>> Are you saying there is a problem with my change? If there is a problem
>>> doesn't already apply to all other uses of svn_cmdline_cstring_from_utf8?
>>>
>>
>> I thinks so. In the subversion/libsvn_subr/nls.c file:
>>
>> #ifdef HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET
>> bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE_NAME, "UTF-8");
>> #endif /* HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET */
>>
>> bind_textdomain_codeset only called when HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET
>> defined. In this case, you can assume GETTEXT(3) returned string is
>> UTF-8 encoded.
>
> I still don't understand if you are claiming my change has a problem or
> if there is a problem in all uses of svn_cmdline_cstring_from_utf8.
>
> I recall a related thread from last year:
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-08/index.shtml#34
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201208.mbox/%3Cop.wilcelggnngjn5@tortoise%3E
>
> I think we assume that the translations are UTF-8.
>
> Is there some code change you think we should make?
>

Even ALL the translations are UTF-8, GETTEXT(3) still return the
string encoded by the ***current locale's codeset***.

 Here is sniped from the GETTEXT(3) man pages:

In both cases, the functions also use the LC_CTYPE locale facet in
order to convert the translated message from the translator's
codeset to the ***current locale's codeset***, unless overridden by a
prior call to the bind_textdomain_codeset function.

So svn_cmdline_printf SHOULD NOT assume the input string is UTF-8
coded, it it encoded to the ***current locale's codeset***.

I think the best solution is: DO NOTconvert the GETTEXT(3) returned
messages, write it ***AS IS***, since GETTEXT(3) already do the
correct conversion for us.
Received on 2013-05-23 16:43:23 CEST

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