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. -- "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot." --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
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