Bazaar internationalization

[Alexander Belchenko]

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Dennis Benzinger пишет:
> I suggest adding a --encoding switch to Bazaar to specify in which locale
> a commit message is encoded. If the switch isn't supplied on a commit then
> the system encoding is used.

Well, bzr store commit messages in utf-8 internally without any special flag.
And still no one complains that his log is broken.
So I see only one reason for this flag: when commit messages come from text file
(-f option). So yes, this option could be useful.

> This is helpful for example in international projects if the project 
> language is chinese and an english speaking developer has to write a commit
> message in chinese. With this switch he can do that without changing his
> system encoding.

I don't understand how someone could write chinese messages with ascii terminal.
Please give me example.

Many Linux terminals today used utf-8 (AFAIK). So you don't need to switch anything.
Things worse on win32, but I don't understand eastern languages, so I just
cannot say anything valuable.

> (This idea was taken from Subversion. See:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.html)

I think this needed for successful cvs2svn conversion as "must have" thing.

> Should there be a wiki page where the internationalization blueprint can be
> improved?

Yes, it should. I create a stub: http://bazaar-vcs.org/I18nSupport
Feel free to start fill it at least minimally.

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