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

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:24:12 -0800

Hi Reinier, thanks a lot for working on this. I haven't studied the patch or the issue page, so please take this for what it's worth. I have a project that stored content as utf-8 for some years. We were able to stamp out most encoding/decoding-related errors, but not all of them, and there were certain features we could never support, like searching for partial unicode strings. For the last while we have been converting to unicode as the internal format, with strict decoding of incoming data and encoding of outgoing. This has been a lot of work. However I feel pretty strongly that this is the more principled approach and the best hope for a robust solution. Text encoding not done right or is one of those issues that never ends. 

-Simon

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