[darcs-users] utf8 in patch bundles and the Chinese codepoint trick

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Mon Oct 19 13:20:43 UTC 2009


Hmm,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 19:43:52 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> For the record, this is what you see in the pipermail archive.

For me,
  http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021851.html 
displays � for the Chinese and ú for the accented u in Marco's name
like what would happen if you'd double-utf-8 encoded it (thinking it was
iso8859-1)

> The URL below has Content-Type application/octet-stream, so I assume
> it works OK.

Seems to work.  I'm puzzled by why file reports it as ISO-8859 text
though...

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