[RFC] diff header encoding for Windows users

[Martin Pool]

On 24 May 2010 20:13, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on Bug #382699 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/382699.
> I've started this work at UDS with some help from Aaron (thanks!)

I started on a different but related thing after talking to you at
UDS, which is adding an option to set the output encoding.  In the
course of that I was thinking that we probably want at least a couple
of different encoding options:

 * the bulk output encoding, used for eg showing the content of diffs
 * the terminal encoding

For instance if I do 'bzr diff >diff.out' then I might want one
encoding for the diff sent to the file and another for the progress
bars.

Perhaps I'd even want one encoding for the filenames in the diff and a
different one for the file contents within the diff?

For now I was just going to add output_encoding and terminal_encoding
and then people can add more if it's necessary.

The way I intend to implement this is by adding a configuration option
for the encodings, then adding a per-process configuration layer that
can be fed by a -O option.  Then we don't need to add per-command
options or global options for every single thing.

Your reasoning about different commands sounds ok to me.

One might also want to explicitly configure the filename encoding on Unix.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>