On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:01:23PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Actually I was referring to the former: if admins may want to change > their hooks for UTF-8 support, then people who write generic hooks will > want to have an if() in their code.
What for? > > The easiest thing we could so is to set LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 > > in the hook's environment if SVNUseUTF-8 is enabled. This allows > > tools like svnlook to procress UTF-8 when invoked from the hook. > > Locale names aren't too portable, are they? > > What guarantees that an English locale is installed? Hmmm... you're right. These names aren't standardized at all. Bummer. We'd have to let users pass a locale name via a config option...