[Python-Dev] UTF8 in the PEP branch

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Mon Oct 15 12:39:12 CEST 2007


Facundo Batista wrote:
> In the PEP text (example:
> 
>   http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0002.txt?rev=56077&view=auto
> 
> ), it says "Last-Modified: $Date$". That $Date$ is being translated in
> the checkout or update by subversion. Maybe there is a $C-locale-Date$
> for subversion to automatically put the date there using C locale and
> not the one of the user.
> 
> I don't know if it exists, though.
> 

It currently does not. You are not the first person to notice this 
problem. I know of a number of projects that are currently avoiding the 
use of subversion keywords for this very reason. Anyways, the issue is 
open on subversion's tracker (since 2005):

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2332

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Scott Dial
scott at scottdial.com
scodial at cs.indiana.edu

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Scott Dial
scott at scottdial.com
scodial at cs.indiana.edu


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