As an FYI I googled SCSU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Compression_Scheme_for_Unicode
Owen Shepherd wrote: > One of the reasons that I'm a fan of SCSU is that, with even a > relatively simple encoder, it produces output which is comparable in > efficiency to that of most legacy encodings. > > On 25 June 2010 18:53, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >> On 25 June 2010 18:09, Owen Shepherd <owen.sheph...@e43.eu> wrote: >>> The trouble is that UTF-8 is a poor standard. It bloats many texts, is >>> quite expensive to parse, and has only one redeeming feature: It never >>> creates embedded nulls. I suppose that it shares its encoding with >>> ASCII is a feature too, but only a minor one. >>> >>> Personally, I think that most systems should adopt SCSU as their >>> storage encoding, but that's unlikely to happen until C strings and >>> MIME (two paragons of awfulness) die out. >>> >>> On 25 June 2010 16:00, Michael Richter <ttmrich...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 25 June 2010 21:34, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >>>>> Perhaps fossil should have a "system encoding" which it would get from >>>>> the environment (locales, windows codepage) and mark all commit >>>>> messages with it. >>>> I vote that this is an extraordinarily bad idea. >>>> Fossil is a distributed SCM system. Potentially the distributed database >>>> in >>>> question could be spread around the world. Do you really want the >>>> nightmare >>>> (and impossibility!) of trying to keep track of which project is in which >>>> encoding scheme on which machine? UTF-8 is a standard explicitly designed >>>> to stop this kind of confusion. It's also been around since 1993, so your >>>> development tools have had plenty of time to catch on and actually use it. >> The fact is that Windows is a supported platform and on Windows common >> tools do not use UTF-8 for good or for bad. So there should at least >> be the code to identify the system encoding and convert it to the repo >> encoding. -- Andreas Kupries Senior Tcl Developer ActiveState, The Dynamic Language Experts P: 778.786.1122 F: 778.786.1133 andre...@activestate.com http://www.activestate.com Get insights on Open Source and Dynamic Languages at www.activestate.com/blog _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
