Re: UnicodeDecodeError getting revision log with Python

[Jack Bates <ms...@freezone.co.uk>]

> David James wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 at 15:58 -0700:
> > Subversion standardizes on UTF-8 internally, but I don't
> > think we verify that log messages are UTF-8 -- I think that users can
> > encode their log messages using any encoding they want.
> 
> As of 1.6, we do.  See validate_prop() in libsvn_repos/fs-wrap.c.

May I file a feature request for,

svn.fs.revision_prop(..., svn.core.SVN_PROP_REVISION_LOG)

- to return a unicode object instead of a bytestream?

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Re: UnicodeDecodeError getting revision log with Python

["C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>]

Jack Bates wrote:
>> David James wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 at 15:58 -0700:
>>> Subversion standardizes on UTF-8 internally, but I don't
>>> think we verify that log messages are UTF-8 -- I think that users can
>>> encode their log messages using any encoding they want.
>> As of 1.6, we do.  See validate_prop() in libsvn_repos/fs-wrap.c.
> 
> May I file a feature request for,
> 
> svn.fs.revision_prop(..., svn.core.SVN_PROP_REVISION_LOG)
> 
> - to return a unicode object instead of a bytestream?

No.

Subversion doesn't make any promises about the revision properties except
that they are bytestreams.  Some of them (the ones managed by Subversion ...
svn:log, svn:author, etc.) are "supposed to be" UTF-8 strings in order for
Subversion to function properly.  But those are requirements of API
functions in levels higher than that of the svn.fs module (or its matching
svn_fs_* underlying C functions).

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
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