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! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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