Does setting DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_8BIT to 1 help?

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 18:43, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote:

> In the FAQ, I read:
>
>
> http://darcs.net/FAQ#can-i-write-patch-comments-or-have-an-author-name-with-characters-in-the-full-unicode-spectrum
>
> Can I write patch comments, or have an author name, with characters in the
> full Unicode spectrum?
>
> Darcs agnosticism w/r/t character encodings can be a problem here if
> you are collaborating with people that use different character
> encodings. The best practice is to make sure that everybody uses the
> UTF-8 encoding.
>
> [End of the FAQ entry]
>
> That's great, I use UTF-8 everywhere. I commit with Unicode characters
> (the é at the end of the patch name):
>
> % darcs record
> ...
> Do you want to record these changes? [Yglqk...], or ? for more options: y
> What is the patch name? Draft ressucité
> Finished recording patch 'Draft ressucité'
>
> But then darcs push cannot display it, showing the Unicode code point
> instead:
>
> Date:   Thu Mar 22 10:36:01 GMT 2018
>   * Draft ressucit<U+00E9>
> Shall I push this patch? (2/2)  [ynW...], or ? for more options: y
>
> Even worse with darcs changes:
>
> patch 33c816655711a5f70d25f892f956b56ac86bfeb1
> Date:   Thu Mar 22 10:36:01 GMT 2018
>   * Draft ressucit[_<U+00E9>_]
>
>
> Can darcs work with Unicode patch names?
>
> % darcs --version
> 2.10.2 (release)
>
> % env |grep LC
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8
>
> Unicode characters work for all the other programs I use from the Unix
> shell.
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