Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 21:04:26 +0100: > 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? >
So that people can use the hooks regardless of their SVNUseUTF8 setting. I mean, I didn't invent the concept that people write hooks and publish it for the world to use. And such hooks need to be robust --- work with a wide array of server configs. (The book text implies that people may want to edit their hooks when they enable SVNUseUTF8) > > > 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... I happen to know an httpd module that does that... :P
