[darcs-users] [patch37] Store textual patch metadata encoded in UTF-8

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Sun Nov 1 23:55:02 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 17:55:50 +0000, Reinier Lamers wrote:
> Here is the patch that makes darcs store patch name, author and log as UTF-8 encoded strings.

Woo!  Three reasons to be excited about Darcs 2.4

Just a question for darcs-users: Is there anybody with experience into
Unicode experience stuff who has the time to advise the patch reviewer
on technical issues, pitfalls, etc?

> The patches make darcs treat old-style patches as locale-encoded. This may be
> controversial. I did this because I suppose that people have already been
> using darcs with non-ASCII locales, using its encoding ignorance as a feature.
> They may have recorded patches with metadata in UTF-8 or other multibyte
> encodings, and it would be sorry for them to start displaying such metadata
> interpreted as ASCII or latin-1.

Said Unicode person would be able to weigh in on the wisdom of this
decision.

> I attached a diff between the starting point and the end result of these
> patches, as they contain some hunks that are reverted in later patches.

Good thinking, Reinier!

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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