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
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