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Re: svnadmin upgrade output message i18n issue

From: Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:15:43 +0800

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> sent from my phone
>
>
> On May 23, 2013 4:43 PM, "Dongsheng Song" <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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***.
>
> But we call the codeset function to make sure we do not generate output in
> the current locale encoding.
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, even though gettext may want us to believe otherwise, this doesn't
> work for cross platform applications: e.g. in windows the locale for output
> on the console may be different from the locale for other uses. Back when we
> went with gettext (2004?), we've hashed this through pretty thoroughly. I
> hope that discussion is still available in the archives.
>

As I said in the first email of this thread, gettext 0.18.2 and 0.14.1
give me the different behavior, it seems that gettext 0.14.1 do not do
the correct thing. But do we still need support this OLD and BUGGY
version ?
Received on 2013-05-23 17:16:37 CEST

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