Re: Check-out fails with LANG=C

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:43:50 +0000, Stefan Sperling wrote:
...
> I think using UTF-8 by default would be a good choice today. But it
> certainly wasn't when the Subversion project was started years ago.
> And we cannot change the existing default behaviour now. That would
> create compatibility nightmares with existing working copies.

You could still make the encoding settable in the WC configuration,
and optionally make that default to utf8 in the checkout. Old WCs
wouldn't be affected. If the filesystem doesn't know, the application
should store a value. (This whole stuff is scary anyway.)

> I don't really understand what kind of answers you are hoping to get.

'You might have a point there'?

> Are you actually proposing that we change something in Subversion,
> or are you arguing out of spite?

False dichotomy? My spite is currently reserved for clearcase.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800