+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.frank...@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@darcs.net > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
