Gabriel Kerneis writes: > I was indeed kidding about the purity part. But the point remains > that locales and characters encodings are a real PITA,
Nobody said otherwise. I've been an Emacs/Mule developer for more than 20 years. I know the pain, I helped write two books about it, and you haven't felt it yet, Brother. > the only reasonable way to sort all this out is to rely on people > using utf-8 everywhere. Natural language is not reasonable. Darcs can either deal with it, or live with a reputation for being an unreliable piece of crap for the 1.5 billion people whose governments or daily practice mandate non-UTF-8 encodings. Darcs has enough trouble being taken seriously as it is. Giving a warning is enough. The people likely to be burned by this are not Darcs-specific. They've been burned before. Mostly they have the tools needed to prepare their text appropriately for Darcs, and are used to using them. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
