[darcs-users] [patch639] Utf-8 encoding for darcs send (reloaded)

[Florent Becker]

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Le 17/07/2011 20:57, Gabriel Kerneis a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> this is a third attempt at using utf-8 whenever possible in darcs send.

I don't understand the point of this bundle: what problems are solved by
always assuming the mail content is utf-8? Are we unable to reliably
decode encoding, or is there a deeper problem? If it's just a problem of
detecting the encoding, I'd rather have:


> - if mail is made of ascii characters, send with content-type charset
>   set to ascii and ignore locale completely,
ok

> - if mail contains invalid utf-8 characters, propose to either abort
>   (and save mail content in a file) or ignore the error and send with
>   content-type charset set to utf-8 anyway (no support for other
>   charset when sending),

ask the user to abort or input the encoding at that point (defaulting to
utf-8 or best, locale)

> - if mail is valid utf-8, send with content-type charset set to utf-8;
>   additionnally print a warning if current locale is not recognised as
>   utf-8 (but do not propose to abort, assuming what looks like utf-8 is
>   utf-8).
> 
ok if there still is a way to abort at that point by using ctrl-C, else
the warning is just a pied-de-nez to the user, and that's undarcsish.

Florent

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