[darcs-devel] [issue1990] Darcs shows question mark diamonds instead of accented characters

[Reinier Lamers]

New submission from Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de>:

Andrés Sicard-Ramírez reported on darcs-users:

> Using darcs 2.4.4, darcs changes shows my author's name as

> Andrés Sicard-Ramírez

> but darcs 2.5 shows it as

> Andr�s Sicard-Ram�rez

> Is there anything I need to do to see the accent marks again?

to which Reinier replied:

Most likely, this is not a regression and darcs 2.4.4 and darcs 2.5
are both broken in different ways. Apparently darcs 2.4.4 works better
for you :(.

> Now of course we're interested in fixing the brokenness in darcs 2.5.
> To do so I'd like to know:

> * What is your operating system?
> * If it's Linux, what is the output of "locale charmap"?
> * If it's okay to publish it, the output of "darcs changes --xml" for
this patch

And Andrés replied:


> I realized the issue is not only with the accent marks in the
> author's name, but also with Unicode symbols in the patch's name.

> $ darcs changes --xml
> <patch author='Andrés Sicard-Ramírez 
&lt;andres.sicard.ramirez at gmail.com&gt;' date='20101102164505'
local_date='Tue N
ov  2 11:45:05 COT 2010' inverted='False'
hash='20101102164505-3bd4e-3ae47ad6181b492ca93f785914015e7fbb495ad0.gz'>
>       <name>Added x∷xs≈x∷ys→xs≈ys.</name>
>       <comment>Ignore-this: 558c75da5d71ad6cd286d878bdb4a9f3</comment>
> </patch>

> $ darcs changes
> Tue Nov  2 11:45:05 COT 2010  Andr�s Sicard-Ram�rez
> <andres.sicard.ramirez at gmail.com>
> * Added x7xsHx7ys�xsHys.

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assignedto: tux_rocker
messages: 12934
milestone: 2.8.0 HEAD
nosy: dmitry.kurochkin, tux_rocker
priority: bug
status: need-action
title: Darcs shows question mark diamonds instead of accented characters
topic: Regression, UI

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