[darcs-users] [patch167] Reintroduce UTF-8 tagging (and 1 more)

[Jason Dagit]

Any volunteers to review this?

Jason

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Reinier Lamers <bugs at darcs.net> wrote:

>
> New submission from Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de>:
>
> This fixes some things in the UTF-8 metadata that's in the HEAD already. It
> reintroduces the 'Ignore-this: UTF-8' line to be able to distinguish
> normalized and denormalized strings, and it fixes the crash bug reported as
> issue1739.
>
> The issue1739 fix makes ColorPrinter escape characters greater than 127 as
> "<U+XXXX>" instead of "\xx". I borrowed that notation from less (the
> pager).
> The "U+XXXX" part is an accepted way of referring to Unicode code points.
>
> What remains to do is:
>  * remove the stopgap home-grown ICU binding that was intended for the 2.4
>    release and replace it by text-icu
>  * find a way of using ICU without bundling it or making installing darcs
>    disproportionally difficult on Windows
>
> 2 patches for repository http://darcs.net/:
>
> Sun Feb  7 18:36:56 CET 2010  Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de>
>  * Reintroduce UTF-8 tagging
>
> Sun Feb 21 16:56:14 CET 2010  Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de>
>  * resolve issue1739: make ColorPrinter handle characters > 255
>
> ----------
> files: reintroduce-utf_8-tagging.dpatch, unnamed
> messages: 10059
> nosy: darcs-users, tux_rocker
> status: needs-review
> title: Reintroduce UTF-8 tagging (and 1 more)
>
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