[darcs-users] Proposal: make DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_8BIT=1 the default

[Evan Laforge]

All I can say is it's about time!  This has been one of those traps
where darcs messes things up and you have to go find some obscure
variable to fix it for as long as I've used darcs.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> wrote:
> ...now that the encoding stuff is in screened, this seems to be a
> sensible move. It means that darcs will show non-ASCII text (in meta
> data as well as in content) in un-escaped form in the user's locale
> encoding. Things like control characters are still escaped by default as
> are spaces at the end of a line.
>
> I guess this is what people expect from a tool like darcs nowadays. I
> also guess that few users even know about this environment setting. And
> casual users or newcomers will tend to think that encodings other than
> ASCII still aren't well supported in darcs.
>
> Of course, the user's locale encoding might not be the one in which a
> patch was recorded, in which case the text might look strange. But with
> the wide-spread use of UTF8 these days this is becoming less and less
> likely (and there remains the option to explicitly set the environment
> variable to 0).
>
> I have a (simple) patch for that but I want to give users and devs the
> opportunity to voice any objections.
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
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