RFC: make ~/.bzr.log utf8

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 16:25 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> So something like:
> 
> if type(bytes) is unicode:
>   outf.write(bytes.encode('utf-8')
> elif type(bytes) is str:
>   try:
>       bytes.decode('utf8')
>   except UnicodeDecodeError:
>       outf.write(bytes.encode('string_escape'))
>   else:
>       outf.write(bytes) # it is utf-8 compatible
> else:
>   ???

Ah yes, I've been getting spoilt by doing stuff in environments where
bytes are not strings. Sigh.

I'd like to push this higher up, but making nothing pass in plain bytes
to mutter etc may be a lot of work, so your suggestion looks sensible.

-Rob
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