[Python-Dev] PEP 385: Mercurial issues (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Aug 5 17:54:15 CEST 2009

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:34:39AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Oleg Broytmann writes: > Dirkjan, how does Mercurial handles charsets? If I have three files in > my repository - one in utf-8, another in koi8-r, and the third in cp1251 > encoding - I certainly don't want to convert them back and force, but I > want hg web interface to provide charset in the Content-Type header.

How is this relevant to PEP 385? I hope the answer is "not at all".

There are non-utf8 non-ascii files in the Python source tree. Either there should be a way to handle them in Mercurial or they have to be converted to UTF-8 in a proper way (i.e., don't forget to rewrite charset directives). Other tan that - I am pondering a switch from SVN to hg in other projects using Python process as an example and asking questions that are slightly off-topic (but only slightly).

I've been there, done that, and my answer is "never again". (I'm not telling you what to do with your repository, just that I don't see any good reason for having any encodings but UTF-8 in Python's.)

We have files in at least two different encodings - utf-8 and cp1251 for user-visible text-files on w32.

Oleg.

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