ghc7.6.1-darcs-2.8.4-alt2 In the output of some commands Cyrillic letters are not printed as is, but rather as codes, so they are not readable. (Although the locale is Cyrillic.) $ darcs init $ echo Здравствуйте > hello.txt $ darcs add -r . $ darcs wh addfile ./hello.txt hunk ./hello.txt 1 +<U+00D0><U+0097><U+00D0><U+00B4><U+00D1><U+0080><U+00D0><U+00B0><U+00D0><U+00B2><U+00D1><U+0081><U+00D1><U+0082><U+00D0><U+00B2><U+00D1><U+0083><U+00D0><U+00B9><U+00D1><U+0082><U+00D0><U+00B5> $ locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ As far as I remember, this wasn't like this in some previous version of darcs, probably 2.1.2-alt2 -- http://packages.altlinux.org/en/Platform5/srpms/darcs . Perhaps, there are other commands where this happens, and I'll report them later.
Workaround: use "darcs diff", which uses the external diff tool (and hence is slower): $ darcs diff diff -rN -u old-darcs-Cyr/hello.txt new-darcs-Cyr/hello.txt --- old-darcs-Cyr/hello.txt 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ new-darcs-Cyr/hello.txt 2014-05-19 04:11:15.678289159 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Здравствуйте $ From the manpage: ... By default, `darcs whatsnew' uses Darcs' internal format for changes. To see some context (unchanged lines) around each change, use the --unified option. To view changes in conventional `diff' format, use the `darcs diff' command; but note that `darcs what‐ snew' is faster. ... darcs diff [file|directory]... The `darcs diff' command compares two versions of the working tree of the current repository. Without options, the pristine (recorded) and unrecorded working trees are compared. This is lower-level than the `darcs whatsnew' command, since it outputs a line-by-line diff, and it is also slower. As with `darcs whatsnew', if you specify files or directories, changes to other files are not listed. The command always uses an external diff utility. ...
Also the Cyrillic letters in the output of "darcs whatsnew" generate soem strange garbage around them on dumb terminals: $ echo world > world.txt $ darcs add world.txt $ darcs wh | cat addfile ./hello.txt hunk ./hello.txt 1 +[_<U+00D0>_][_<U+0097>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B4>_][_<U+00D1>_][_<U+0080>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B0>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B2>_][_<U+00D1>_][_<U+0081>_][_<U+00D1>_][_<U+0082>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B2>_][_<U+00D1>_][_<U+0083>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B9>_][_<U+00D1>_][_<U+0082>_][_<U+00D0>_][_<U+00B5>_] addfile ./world.txt hunk ./world.txt 1 +world $ Perhaps, this are the colored highlighting for these codes (they are printed red)... but this garbage doesn't appear around other highlighted text; for example, above the words "addfile"and"hunk"are printed in blue in a terminal.
Reported upstream: * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2389 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2391
