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diff --git a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index da40118d5..000000000 --- a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -Currenty, git-annex forces output, particularly of filenames, in a utf-8 -locale. - -Note that this does not mean it cannot be used with filenames in other -encodings. git-annex is entirely encoding agnostic when it comes to -manipulating filenames. It just *displays* their names always converted to -utf-8, which may not look right when you have a non-utf8 locale. - -This had to be done to work around some bugs with haskell's handling -of filename encodings. In particular, - -* [[bugs/unhappy_without_UTF8_locale]]: haskell crashes when told to output - a string with characters > 255 in a non-utf8 locale. -* [[bugs/problems_with_utf8_names]]: On many OSs, haskell expects - non-decoded raw char8 in FilePaths. In order to display a filename, - though, it needs to first be decoded, and git-annex currently assumes - it was encoded as utf8. - -git-annex's behavior is unlikely to improve much until haskell's -support for utf8 filenames improves. --[[Joey]] - -> [[done]] -- I just turned off all encoding handling on stdout and stderr, -> which avoids these problems nicely. Git-annex now displays just what it -> input, at least on platforms where haskell does not decode unicode in -> FilePaths. This will later be a problem when it gets localized, but for -> now works great. --[[Joey]] |