Hi Stephan,
Mercurial supports UTF-8. I made some experiments with UTF-8 in file
names, message logs and user names. Worked out fine - at least with
hg-1.3.1, didn't try some thing else.
Haven't check the web-interface yet, though, but I think there was some
config which mentioned UTF-8. The content-type of the email notification
seems wrong to me, needs to be fixed.
Ah, and of course, just because hg supports UTF-8 this doesn't mean
anyone should come up with fancy file names or message logs. Especially
not with fancy files names. Remember, no one got ever fired for using
ascii-7 :-). The only place where I can see a certain usefulness for
UTF-8 is the authorname, so it's ok to use it there but you always risk
that your name might look mangled on someone else terminal (most Linux
and Solaris terminals are UTF-8 nowadays, but this is certainly not yet
standard everywhere).
ISO-8859-1 is so ... well ... 20th century, do not use it anywhere in
our build environment. Full Unicode is not yet practicable at all.
Regards,
Heiner
Stephan Bergmann wrote:
What character set should the characters be drawn from used in the meta
information of a Mercurial change set (like the -u user name and -m
message)? Plain 7-bit ASCII, ISO 8859-1, full Unicode?
I noticed that for example Caolán's name is garbled (with a "?") both in
the web front end (e.g.,
<http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/cmcfixes65/rev/3ee4cb3a17dd>,
XHTML marked as '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?>') and the mails
sent to [email protected] (which are marked as "content-type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii").
(By the way, [email protected] is missing from the list of general
mailing lists at <http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html>.)
-Stephan
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