Taking this off the tracker... Snipped-Eric said: >> Basically the picture looks like this: >> >> OS <--> darcs <---> patch files
>> IMHO, what you want is for darcs <--> patch files to always use >> UTF-8. On the other hand, the OS <--> darcs part needs some more >> thought. On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:33:06 +0000, Reinier Lamers wrote: > Given that even enterprisey Java does not have a good solution to this > problem makes me feel hopeless about finding one for darcs. I dunno. Maybe Darcs has a more restricted problem with more room for hope? [I don't actually have strong feelings about this. After all, our move away from textual filenames is a sort of grumpy/conservative way of avoiding the issue, which I could see as being ultimately a wise one (don't try to be too clever or you'll burn your fingers?) With the exception of '\n' we are 100% agnostic about the contents of your files, so why do I care about the names?] > We could of course say that for darcs, filenames are Unicode text. I guess what prompted my desire for Unicode text in filenames is a desire for cross-platform repositories. I thought it would be good if you could create a darcs repo with Hungarian filenames on your Linux box, and get it from a Windows box, manipulate it, push some patches in and everything just sort of works the way you want it to. (What happens in the Git and Mercurial world?) But maybe I desire too much. Since I'm overstretching anyway, but this Eric Sink posting I keep linking to <http://www.ericsink.com/entries/quirky.html> points to the sort of thing that we would ideally have some sort of reasonable behaviour for. Hmm :-/ If you have access to some pairs in Windows, Linux and MacOS X, you could have some fun trying these examples out (I can say that for test #2 about creating a COM1 style filename, darcs add now refuses this unless you force it to ignore Windows-specific warnings). > And I haven't even thought about backward compatibility. You just said the magic word. I just realised that all my talk belongs on the darcs 3 wishlist anyway... -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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