> -----Original Message----- > From: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users- > boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] On Behalf Of Ron W > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 5:34 PM > To: Fossil SCM user's discussion > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] UTF-8 and Binary Files > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:52 PM, David Botham <dbot...@infoblox.com> > wrote: > > I have been using Fossil for a little over a month and I am really > liking. > > > > Welcome. Glad to hear you like it. > > > Two things confuse me a bit, and I am hoping the users here can > give me some insight (or point me to the right place to rtfm, which is > totally ok). > > 1. I am getting a lot of warnings about invalid UTF-8 characters > in configuration files I am typing by hand. I see any strange > characters in the files. Is there a way to find out which characters > are offending Fossil? I know I can suppress these warnings, but, it > seems strange to me that Fossil is seeing the characters in the first > place. > > > > Are you using editing files on Windows? Depending on the code page, the > editor may be trying to use character encodings that look like invalid > UTF-8
Yes, I am editing in Komodo 8.5.3 on a Windows 7 workstation. I will peek at the files in a hex editor and see what I can see... david > > > 2. Why doesn't Fossil like binary files? Just about every project > I work on has a SQLite3 database, which is a binary file. I will gladly > tell Fossil to suppress these warnings if I was sure Fossil was not > going to do something bad to them at some point in the future. > > > > Stephan's message came in while I was interrupted. See his explanation > re binary files. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
