Internationalisation of bzr cli

[INADA Naoki]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Philippe Lhoste пишет:
>>
>> On 29/04/2011 09:57, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>>>
>>> If you want to work on it then please consider adding proper support for
>>> Windows as it
>>> done in QBzr and Bazaar Explorer (the basic idea available as small and
>>> separate project:
>>> https://launchpad.net/gettext-py-windows)
>>
>> Yes!
>> One, perhaps obvious, issue is where text is displayed/redirected on
>> Windows.
>
> Last sprint I've talked with Martin about adding global command-line option
> --encoding to force specific encoding of output. I don't remember the resume
> on this.
>

Bravo!
In my company, many servers doesn't have properly locale so I can't use utf-8
even if I use utf-8 terminal.
I want to have a BZR_USERENCODING env that changes default user encoding.
A global --utf8 option for shortcut of --encoding=utf-8 is also useful, IMHO.


>> Well, I fear there is no good/real solution for this. Unless, perhaps
>> changing the charset of the console to UTF-8, which isn't obvious to
>> everybody (I know I can do that, I don't even recall how it can be done...).
>> [... reaching the browser ...] That's chcp 65001
>> But Bazaar doesn't understand it. :-(
>
> *Python* does not understand it. Bazaar is Python application and it heavily
> relies on what Python as platform provides.
>
>> I noticed that at least Bzr 2.3 handle Unicode better than in the past.
>
> Very strange. Really.
>
> D:\Temp\BzrTest
>>
>>  > chcp 65001
>> Page de codes active : 65001
>>
>> D:\Temp\BzrTest
>>  > bzr log -v
>> bzr: warning: unknown terminal encoding cp65001.
>
> This error comes from Python. It has no knowledge about cp65001. Maybe bzr
> can add alias for this encoding to treat it as utf-8. Although in my
> experiments it's not possible to print anything correctly from python to
> console with such encoding. Again, Python as platform.
>
>>  Using encoding cp1252 instead.
>
>
>> When I redirect output to a file, it uses the terminal's CP, which is, by
>> default, different from the default Windows one... That's the part which is
>> probably hard to impossible to check (a program cannot know if its output is
>> redirected, right?).
>> I suppose the solution is more at the user level, setting the code page in
>> the editor, or in the console or something. :-(
>>
>> Just to say that I18N is a good idea, but can have gotchas on some
>> platforms, for command line applications...
>
> Yep :-/
>
>



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