What do you expect to happen? As to special-casing svn_io_is_binary_data() to handle 0xEFBBBF correctly... we could do that, I suppose.
Tomáš Bihary wrote on Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:15:19 +0200: > Hello, > > after upgrading the svn 1.7 I realized an issue. > > When I add an empty UTF-8 file, it is added with mimetype > application/octet-stream > The empty UTF8 file has 3 bytes size - there are just the 3 mark > bytes 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF > > If there is an content in that file, it is handled correctly like text. > > I've found a similar issue 2194 with UTF-16 files which status is REOPENED. > > Regards > Tomas