On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:11:58 +0100
Benoit Mortgat <mort...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember having tried to fossilize files in the Ms Office 2007
> formats; the docx, xlsx, etc. formats are merely zips containing
> mainly XML files. 

When I need to track such files (e.g. Gnucash, Gnumeric), I save them as
uncompressed xml.

> Even if it is not sane to include such characters in file names, those
> characters happen to exist.

It's not, in general, sane to track binaries as regular files, those
have to be marked as binaries since there is no use of trying to
diff/merge 'em.


Sincerely,
Gour (who does not have need to use [}${łłħ]"&* in filenames...)

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