Trent Buck reported the following on darcs-users:

What are these getLog messages?

    $ darcs --version
    2.3.1 (+ 416 patches)

    $ find [^_]*/ -depth -type d -exec \
      darcs record --no-test -am "Whitespace cleanup in {}." {} \;
    [...]
    Recording changes in "src/Darcs/Witnesses":

    Patch name as received from getLog:
    [87,104,105,116,101,115,112,97,99,101,32,99,108,101,97,110,117,112,32,105,110,32,115,114,99,47,68,97,114,99,115,47,87,105,116,110,101,115,115,101,115,46]
    Finished recording patch 'Whitespace cleanup in
    src/Darcs/Witnesses.'
    [...]

>From the following, I see it's a list of Unicode codepoints from -m.
Can this noisy output be removed from normal (non-debugging) builds?

    $ darcs changes --last 100 --match 'hunk Patch.name.as.received'
    Fri Sep 18 02:53:01 EST 2009  Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker@reinier.de>
      * Make record store patch metadata in UTF-8

This was resolved by
Tue Dec 29 11:37:01 GMT 2009  Florent Becker <florent.becker@ens-lyon.org>
  * remove utf-8 message-spam