On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:59:12PM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:27:24PM -0700, Paul Schauble wrote: > > I do international software development for Windows. This means I have a > > bunch of source files in Unicode/UTF-16LE. > > > > At present, DARCS does not handle this format, except as a pure binary > > file. > > > > Would it be practical to add UTF-8 and UTF-16BE and LE formats with full > > diff/merge support? > > Is this something the developers would be interested in doing? > > It would be practical, but I don't know of any developers that would have > time to do so. It wouldn't even be particularly hard, I suspect, the > trickiness would all be in handling the line endings, since darcs doesn't > do anything with the contents of lines (unless you use replace, which might > be broken).
Convieniently, the UCS2 byte sequence for 10 contains 10. So if darcs didn't refuse to linediff files containing 0, things would just work. Stefan _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
