Artifact 66a4b97134721d270a845df39df1e3c3214bedc4

Ticket change [66a4b97134] - Ticket 3984e3768d Support for non-UTF encodings status still Open with 1 other change by kkinnell on 2009-04-07 15:18:28.

D 2009-04-07T15:18:28
J comment While\smost\sof\sthe\sworld\shas\sswitched\sto\sUTF-8,\sthere\sare\sstill\ssome\splaces\swhere\sISO-8859\sis\sused.\sIt\swould\sbe\snice\sif\sfossil\skept\sthe\srepository\sin\sUTF-8,\sbut\srecoded\son\sthe\sfly\sto\skeep\sthe\slocal\scopy\sin\sthe\ssystem\sencoding.\r\n\r\n<hr><i>kkinnell\sadded\son\s2009-04-07\s15:06:11:</i><br>\r\nPlease\ssee\sticket\s[cc6557cfc5763fa80bb04eecea7f713b0751efc4].\r\n\r\nEncodings\sare\smostly\sabout\sdisplay.\s\sFossil\sstores\soctets.\s\sIf\sall\sof\syour\ssystems\sare\sset\sup\sto\suse\sLatin-1,\sthen\sexcept\sin\s<i>very</i>\srare\s<i>real</i>\sinstances\syou'll\sget\sLatin-1\swhen\syou\slook\sat\sthe\srepository\s(see\sbelow.)\r\n\r\nYou\swill\s<u>always</u>\sget\sback\sthe\soctets\syou\scommit\sto\sthe\srepository\sas\ssource\sfiles.\r\n\r\nThe\sonly\stime\sthe\sencoding\sactually\smatters\sis\swhen\sthe\sencoding\sis\sinteracting\swith\sthe\srepository\sitself.\s\sThis\skind\sof\smeta-circular\sstuff\scauses\sproblems\sin\sany\ssystem.\s\sThe\scanonical\sexample\sin\sFossil\sis\smulti-byte\scharacters\sin\sa\swikipage\stitle,\swhich\sdisplay\sas\s"entified"\sUTF-8.
K 3984e3768ddbf470e62e6af98715a33abad17b49
U kkinnell
Z 1459448b23a44a78791bc78a2820cdfe