[0.8][MERGE]

[Martin Pool]

On 10 Jun 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > The following patch fixes a severe bug in 0.8 : it will fail when given
> > well formed xml encoded as utf8 in the inventory. It fails because it
> > implicitly upcasts the serialized inventory from an ascii string when
> > writing it to the working tree as utf8 - in actual fact it is already
> > encoded as a utf8 bytestream and no conversion should be performed. Our
> > current xml writer happens to emit ascii-safe inventory xml, but third
> > party xml generators could well emit utf8, and its likely we will want
> > to do so ourselves in future. Accordingly I'd like to put this fix into 
> > 0.8, and an update into dapper.
> > 
> > https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/49224
> 
> +1, both as a bugfix, and for backporting into an 0.8 release.

+1 as a bugfix but I don't think this justifies a new release.  We
should continue writing ascii-safe XML to support <=0.8.2 versions.

-- 
Martin