Re: UTF-8 support for Unix with APR?

On 2008-02-12 13:52:41 +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> The APR libraries handle file paths in the system locale. This means
> they *may* be encoded in UTF-8, but are not necessarily. When they are
> interpreted as UTF-8 depends on the LANG or LC_CTYPE settings in the
> host environment.

This is broken. APR should switch to UTF-8 locales internally when it
deals with filenames (like what GNOME apps do). Otherwise this leads
to consistency problems when the user has both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
terminal sessions (the reason is that some applications and/or some
machines do not support multibyte character sets, and one wouldn't
want to mess everything when running svn in degraded mode, i.e. with
ISO-8859-1 locales).

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