[PATCH] Add description for SVNUseUTF8 (issue #2487)

Stefan Sperling stsp at elego.de
Thu Feb 2 12:43:12 CST 2012


On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:57:58PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Neels J Hofmeyr wrote on Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 17:51:01 +0100:
> > +                becomes possible. Note that your hook scripts must then
> > +                operate in the UTF-8 character set regardless of the
> 
> How are scripts supposed to know this?  Shouldn't we communicate to them
> the expectations of them (via argv or env)?

Admins are supposed to know this and adjust their hooks accordingly.

Note that before this change non-ASCII didn't work in hooks anyway.
Existing hooks can only be using ASCII which is a subset of UTF-8.




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