[Development] Prettier printing of Unicode strings

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jan 27 09:57:21 CET 2014


On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2014 08:06:58, Knoll Lars wrote:
> >With my change as it is, you'd see:
> >Actual   (s1): Thiago Jos\u00E9 Macieira / Lars Knoll
> >Expected (s2): Thiago Jose\u0301 Macieira \u2215 L\u0430rs Knoll
> 
> I know that, but we’re usually not writing our auto tests to try and
> trick someone. Just saying that for many use cases utf8 output makes the
> issue easier to spot. How about an environment variable to turn off
> escaping?

We're also not generating UTF-8 output to be read out as regular text. This is 
the result of a failed comparison, in which case IMO clearly highlighting the 
differences is more important.

I can add the environment variable, but I'd like to leave the default as full 
escaping.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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