Thread: Patch attribution and non-ASCII characters
I see a number of non-ASCII characters in the names of patch submitters in the CVS logs. Does anyone know a good way to have all these get the same encoding in the CVS commit logs? I am thinking that is impossible because we can't attach the email encoding to the commit message. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
Bruce Momjian wrote: > I see a number of non-ASCII characters in the names of patch submitters > in the CVS logs. Does anyone know a good way to have all these get the > same encoding in the CVS commit logs? I am thinking that is impossible > because we can't attach the email encoding to the commit message. Is this a problem now, or are you looking to solve it for future releases? I think the best you could do is post the non-ASCII names here, and have affected people post back their names in HTML escaping or something that suits the SGML docs. For example my name is Álvaro Herrera Or, in Latin-1, Álvaro Herrera Most commit messages contain the ASCII version of my name, thus you wouldn't notice the problem anyway. The COPY (select) commit message, AFAIR, also has Zoltán's name in ASCII form (Zoltan). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I think the best you could do is post the non-ASCII names here, and have
> affected people post back their names in HTML escaping or something that
> suits the SGML docs.
That's probably the best way to close the loop. I know that when I'm
committing such patches, I tend to copy-n-paste from a mail window to a
shell window, and I'd not venture to guarantee anything about what
encoding the text is in anyway. Sometimes it looks reasonable in the
shell window and sometimes it doesn't ...
regards, tom lane
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I see a number of non-ASCII characters in the names of patch submitters > > in the CVS logs. Does anyone know a good way to have all these get the > > same encoding in the CVS commit logs? I am thinking that is impossible > > because we can't attach the email encoding to the commit message. > > Is this a problem now, or are you looking to solve it for future > releases? Either. ;-) > I think the best you could do is post the non-ASCII names here, and have > affected people post back their names in HTML escaping or something that > suits the SGML docs. > > For example my name is > Álvaro Herrera > > Or, in Latin-1, > ?lvaro Herrera > > Most commit messages contain the ASCII version of my name, thus you > wouldn't notice the problem anyway. The COPY (select) commit message, > AFAIR, also has Zolt?n's name in ASCII form (Zoltan). Yep. I will grab the unknown names and ask the group to research HTML versions. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +