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-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--doc/news/version_0.18.mdwn9
-rw-r--r--doc/news/version_0.23.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn6
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
index efde1c9a3..d6dc6ca3c 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ It looks like the common latin1-to-UTF8 encoding. Functionality other than otupu
> One other possible
> issue would be that this could cause problems if git-annex were
> translated.
+> > On second thought, I switched to this. Any decoding of a filename
+> > is going to make someone unhappy; the previous approach broke
+> > non-utf8 filenames.
----
diff --git a/doc/news/version_0.18.mdwn b/doc/news/version_0.18.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index f2e0edb42..000000000
--- a/doc/news/version_0.18.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-git-annex 0.18 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
- * Bugfix: `copy --to` and `move --to` forgot to stage location log changes
- after transferring the file to the remote repository.
- (Did not affect ssh remotes.)
- * fsck: Fix bug in moving of corrupted files to .git/annex/bad/
- * migrate: Fix support for --backend option.
- * unlock: Fix behavior when file content is not present.
- * Test suite improvements. Current top-level test coverage: 80%"""]] \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/news/version_0.23.mdwn b/doc/news/version_0.23.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e045352ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/news/version_0.23.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+git-annex 0.23 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+ * Support ssh remotes with a port specified.
+ * whereis: New subcommand to show where a file's content has gotten to.
+ * Rethink filename encoding handling for display. Since filename encoding
+ may or may not match locale settings, any attempt to decode filenames
+ will fail for some files. So instead, do all output in binary mode."""]] \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
index 60f35eec8..da40118d5 100644
--- a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ of filename encodings. In particular,
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]]