Code review comment for lp:~jameinel/bzr-builddeb/unicode-author-508251

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:40:47 -0600, John Arbash Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> iso-8859-1 can decode all possible 8-bit sequences. Possibly
> incorrectly, but all bits have a Unicode code point from iso-8859-1.

Ok, so we'll have nonsense on occaision, but no failures. Sounds
reasonable to me.

> The import succeeded. I don't have a way to tell the fidelity of the
> result, etc.

> I'm slightly concerned that a new import will give different results to
> an old import (based on now finding an author that wasn't found before).
> But I don't think the import system uses deterministic ids, so it should
> be fine.

It doesn't use deterministic ids. I don't think it matters much that
there will be differences, there's not a lot we can do about that.

Thanks,

James