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UTF8 in FSVS
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Some points which trouble me a bit, and some random thoughts; everything
connected with UTF-8:
- Properties we get from the repository might be easiest stored locally
as UTF8, if we don't do anything with them (eg. svn:entry).
- In which properties can be non-ASCII-characters? Does someone define
user/group names in UTF-8? Can eg. xattr have Unicode characters in them?
Does that happen in practical usage?
- The currently used properties should be safe. I've never heard from
non-ASCII groups or users, and the mtime should always be in the same
format.
- I thought whether I should just do *everything* in UTF-8.
But that is a performance trade off; on a simple "fsvs status" we'd
have to all filenames from the waa-directory. It may not be much work,
but if it's not necessary ...
- I'd like to have the subversion headers to define a utf8_char *, which
would (with gcc) be handled distinct from a normal char * ...
(see linux kernel, include/linux/types.h: #define __bitwise ...)
But that won't happen, as there's already too much software which relies
on the current definitions.
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