[cvsnt] Re: cvswrappers

[Mike Lehmann]

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
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