[RFC] Use utf-8 revision ids

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:27 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> It does seem there may be some breakage if people have somehow
> generated
> non-ascii ids, and their default encoding is not utf-8 -- they may get
> an exception when trying to compare the str value to a unicode
> revision
> id they got from somewhere else.  But such data should be rare, and if
> we generally go towards treating these ids just as strs then it should
> be ok. 


well, we've treated ids as unicode previously, so non-ascii implies
unicode, which means utf8 is fine. We can decode to unicode and encode
to their locale on display sanely IMNSHO.

Rob

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