> On May 4, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 2015-05-04 08:57:29, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
>> Jordan,
>>
>> Some source control systems provide support a file type of UTF-16LE,
>> so the use of 'binary' should be avoided. What source control
>> systems require the use of 'binary'?
>
> Svn seems to require it so the data doesn't get munged.
>
> Git seems to auto-detect UTF-16 .uni files as binary.
>
>> What diff utilities are having issues with UTF-16LE files? Can you
>> provide some examples?
>
> I don't think it is possible to create a .uni patch file for EDK II
> that actually works.
>
> Normally, for .uni files we just see something about the diff being
> omitted on a binary file.
>
> With git, I know there are ways to force a diff to be produced, but I
> don't believe it would actually work to apply a patch to a UTF-16
> file.
>
This
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/777949/can-i-make-git-recognize-a-utf-16-file-as-text
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/777949/can-i-make-git-recognize-a-utf-16-file-as-text>
stackoverflow article seems to imply you can can make git-merge work with a
.gitattributes file setting?
Thanks,
Andrew Fish
> With utf-8, it seems to 'just work'. (With git and svn.)
>
>> Also, what are the pros/cons to extending the exiting .uni file
>> extension to support either UTF16-LE or UTF-8 encodings vs. adding a
>> new file extension?
>
> I don't know of any pros/cons. We could assume that a file without the
> UTF-16 BOM is UTF-8.
>
> It would certainly mess up my unit tests. :)
>
> -Jordan
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