Re: UTF-8 support for Unix with APR?

On 2008-02-15 13:27:31 +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> Right. But all of that means it's not so deterministic that either
> APR or Subversion can solve *all* locale problems.

Perhaps they can't solve them on their own, but they should give the
user the possibility to solve them. For instance, there could be an
option (to be put in .subversion/config and/or a command-line switch)
to say: assume the current locale for input (command-line arguments
and terminal) and output (terminal), and the configured locale for
everything else.

BTW, there's a similar problem to generate ChangeLog files, which
should be in UTF-8 for most projects. What if a user wants to generate
such a file from an ISO-8859-1 terminal?

There are tools that have an option to specify the encoding of the
output (e.g. xmllint and its --encode option). Why not Subversion
for "svn log"?

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