[darcs-users] Latin vs. Unicode

[Xan]

+1 vote for that.
Please put unicode as native encoding. The rest is past.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 02:40:02 +0100
Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> ha escrit:

> This came up when re-factoring the options system and is of wider interest, 
> I think, so I send it to darcs-users.
> 
> The issue is, I should say, limited to stuff we get from the command line, 
> or from the environment, that is, patch meta-data like author, patch name, 
> etc. Here, Darcs has currently built in extra support for handling 8-bit 
> encodings like iso latin1. This works by casting the unicode characters in 
> the Strings to Word8, which effectively calculates their value modulo 256. 
> This is not noticeable as long as you use only languages with characters 
> whose code points are below 256, which is the case for most European 
> languages; but for Asian ones, not to speak of the other continents, this 
> breaks as soon as they enter data in their native languages.
> 
> Over the last years, unicode has established itself world-wide and firmly 
> and is well supported by all the major operating systems. This is why I vote 
> for dropping support for older 8-bit encodings that are not unicode 
> compatible, thereby allowing e.g. Chinese users to use Darcs with their 
> native languages.
> 
> Cheers
> Ben
> -- 
> "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> darcs-users mailing list
> darcs-users at darcs.net
> http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users