Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 285: Directory documents should be standardized as UTF-8

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 4:05 PM, chelsea komlo me@chelseakomlo.com wrote:

It is great that we are identifying places to improve support for Rust in Tor.

Along this same line of thinking, are there other places in Tor where we will need to move to supporting UTF-8? For example, should the statefile be UTF-8 also?

I think we could safely say that the torrc and state files need to be UTF-8, though that wouldn't need a design proposal. We'd want to do a two-phase transition, though: first warning, then disallowing.

We could also, at some point, specify that the control protocol needs to be UTF-8 too, I think. That one would need a proposal, and a transition plan.