TL;DR - UTF-8 is likely sufficient, but what do I know, I operate only in English and French... - v3 will support UTF-8 everywhere in the syntax, via RE/flex - no point in changing something so deep in v2 at this stage, it'll just cause a lot of flex-related bugs on something we're getting rid of anyway.
I never spent much time on adding this in v2, I think it's a bit of a hack the way this is added. I'd rather do this right in v3 and move on. On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 5:17 PM Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> wrote: > Hello, > > currently Beancount has some support for using encodings different from > UTF-8 for its input files. This functionality is however limited to > string literals and to the use of encodings that encode the ASCII subset > in the same way as the ASCII encoding (or to the use of some custom tool > to forge files where different encodings are used for different parts). > > For reasons described here > https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues/504 I think that this > functionality in his current form has little to no use and I am > proposing to remove it. > > As far as I can tell, this feature is not exposed by the interface of > the Beancount tools, thus I think it is very unlikely that someone is > using it. > > However, before implementing the changes described in the issue tracker, > I would like to make sure that no one is making use of this feature. > > Thank you. > > Best, > Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/cbde3568-e049-8df3-cb83-e09e520f5053%40grinta.net > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhOf3SamcbgNm3m80HDSRhztBSmaQhD%3D9wRRa4ZqS85aNw%40mail.gmail.com.
