Hi Dan (Stephen, Gabriel), I suggested on the patch tracker [1] that we do the same thing we do when reading patch metadata from the user, guess and fall back: try decoding as UTF-8 and if there are errors doing so, decode as locale. Would that be good?
For perspective in case anybody is only skimming, this discussion is about the email blurbs that accompany patch bundles, so no core data such as patches is affected. > > Or maybe I'll do as a friend of mine suggested and submit a patch > > that crashes darcs on start-up if the current locale is not ascii or > > utf-8, to count the number of utf-8-reluctant darcs users out there > > ;-) > Considering the elegance of the darcs system, there is no > place for such immature and vengeful approaches to solving a problem. I think Gabriel is quite clearly joking. A reaction this strong is probably not helpful here, but I hope you hold on it for a future setting, because we're human, we screw up, and we need to be schooled from time to time. The sort of experience and user advocacy that Stephen and Dan provide is valuable to the project, and I hope all Darcs developers (Core Team or casual) take it to heart. Perhaps a good principle is to try and do right by default, and make our sacrifices as deliberate prioritisation, not out of laziness. [1] http://bugs.darcs.net/patch639 Thanks, Eric PS. on Darcs holiday for the summer as I attend to personal matters -- Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
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