Future of Ac... or even of PLD

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:42:21PM +0100, Marcin Król wrote:
> > Wrong choice.
> > Why? Because with every spec that should be ony taged you'll have to do 
> > conversion. Which isn't needed...
> 
> Well, the day that 'cvs diff -u some.spec' will convert charset
> automagically on the fly from UTF to my local encoding I'll accept UTF
> in Ac specs. Otherwise I may be even unable to check my changes w/o
> redirecting diff to file and doing iconv manually as displaying UTFish
> charactes on ISO console causes many weird things like screen being
> cleared, cursor moving to some random postion etc. Basically in most
> cases it clutters up the screen. And no, switching to UTF console is not
> an option here.

So maybe the answer is some script or bash function which invokes `cvs
diff args... | iconv -f utf-8`?

> I prefer doing conversion in spec for AC-branch than seeing UTF junk on
> my screen.
> 
> > Every developer will have to prepare his console anyway - we shouldn't 
> > care about that. Maybe just write some small tutorial :)
> 
> Not every developer :) I'm not going to touch HEAD for at least next few
> months so I don't need to configure anything for UTF :)

Argh, I'm going to bite for doing updates on AC-branch only, leaving old
versions on HEAD ;P


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