Re: String encoding issue

Am 25.03.2018 um 20:30 schrieb Stephane Bortzmeyer:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:24:45AM +0100,
>  Ben Franksen <[email protected]> wrote 
>  a message of 17 lines which said:
> 
>> FWIW, this particular wart will be removed in the next release.
> 
> You mean Unicode characters will always be displayed properly or will
> never be displayed properly?

They will be displayed properly if you have set a Unicode encoding in
your locale (as most people have, nowadays). DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_8BIT is
now the default.

You can use non-Unicode encodings, too, if you like (or are forced due
to legacy issues); for instance ISO latin should continue to work.

Cheers
Ben