From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:31:46 GMT
Subject: Re: StGit and charsets
Message-ID: <20080804153146.GF12232@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808040721n6c47908o9d8fabd8f16293c1@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008-08-04 10:21:20 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Do you have tests in place to handle the names and comments in
> patches being in different charsets?

There are some tests in t1800 and t1900 that use non-ascii names.
Might be others, but a quick grep didn't find them.

> I don't work much with international charsets. If someone is using
> something like Russian or Finish locally, is the metadata in the
> patch converted to UTF8 before exporting or sending it as mail?

I think what happens is that it's assumed to be utf8. No one has
complained that their non-utf8 locale doesn't work, but my guess is
that's because those people just haven't tried StGit yet.

> Comments should be in English, but people's names may need UTF8.

Mine does, for example. I started my StGit career by making sure it
could send out patches that didn't mangle my name. (That's a while
ago, though, so my memory's getting a bit rusty.)

> And what about email addresses, does DNS allow Unicode names now?

I think it's up to each TLD whether they want to allow it. See e.g.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

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      www.treskal.com/kalle