On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:22:49PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There's no attempt to (completely) solve the problem with utf-8 so > > far. > > Why not?
The user's file contents that are escaped when printing (e.g., hunks) to the terminal, can be in any encoding, even multiple encodings or home-made encodings. It's much work for little general use to go from simple octet passing to optional utf-8 interpreting. > > Mark Stosberg had the problem on FreeBSD 4.10 with perl 5.8.0. > > I suspect that the locale support on FreBSD 4.10 is deficient. I know > for instance that my NetBSD 1.6 box has very primitive locale support. Hm, maybe I could try and write an autoconf test to disable DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_ISPRINT if libc's isprint (or Haskell's isPrint) isn't working. -- Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
