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| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote Re: [Bug 610229] Re: Commit messages on Windows are interpreted as cp1252 even if they are UTF-8 | #4 |
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Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> Okay, thanks. The developer is Marc Schumann, BTW, who's also subscribed
> to this bug now.
>
> I think making UTF-8 the default would possibly be a reasonable choice,
> too. I think almost everybody who would be typing international comments
> into commit messages on Windows nowadays would be writing them in UTF-8,
> although Marc would have a better idea than I would.
>
To be fair his *system* says that he should be writing in cp1252, or
whatever, which is what we are respecting.
I think it would be reasonable to have a bazaar configuration setting
(possibly also settable at runtime with a -Ooption flag) that would set
the file-encoding as per user request, instead of querying
locale.
John
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