[darcs-users] Re: Can I disable \xx quoting in record --interactive?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:49, David Roundy wrote:
> > Yes, this does seem like a solution. On the other hand, it's also a
> > pretty ugly hack, and will cost in terms of performance, since we'd
> > have to perform the conversion every time we run whatsnew, record,
> > or whatever.
> 
> Using utf8 internally for all strings is something perl has been doing
> for a long time; if done correctly it does not have to be a
> performance overhead.  For all multibyte encodings it also saves
> memory :)

Plan 9, the OS from the Unix people at Bell Labs, has also used utf8
in the kernel and all the user-space programs.  In fact, they invented
utf8.

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/

Cheers,


Ralph.