Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-15 Thread Csaba Kos
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 September 2012 04:20, Csaba Kos csaba@gmail.com wrote: I think now would be a good time to discuss the possibility of a more generic text conversion framework, i.e. not only UTF16 to UTF8 but also SHIFT-JIS

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-14 Thread Csaba Kos
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: It would be an interesting project to enhance Fossil so that it could support UTF16 in addition to UTF8. What would be needed is an algorithm to detect when a file was UTF16. (The BOM at the beginning of Kevin's example ought to be a big

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-14 Thread Csaba Kos
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Scott Robison sc...@scottrobison.us wrote: One thing I thought of yesterday but dismissed (and am now rethinking as a result of your email) is maybe there should be a bit of meta-data that can be attached to files to explicitly set their encoding. Having built