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Just curious, how do I tell CVSNT in what encoding my local text files are stored? -- Mike Tony Hoyle wrote: > David Somers wrote: > >> When the client sends the files to to server, how are they encoded? >> text/unicode as utf8, binary as ? > > > Unicode (and all specially encoded) files they're converted to UTF8 for > transmission. > > This has a nice side-effect that you can commit with one encoding (eg. > SJIS) and checkout with another (eg. UTF-16). > >> BTW, does anybody use UTF-32? > > > I've never heard of it in use, but AFAIK it's needed for some > far-eastern languages. > >> Perhaps the detection code code be put into cvsnt so that binary/unicode >> files get correctly wrapped or throw up a "danger will robinson" message >> -:) > > > There's something like it in WinCVS.. I'm not really into the idea > myself - some files get easily misdetected eg. PDF files look like > unicode apparently... this just annoys the user who knows what they're > doing. > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs > >