> -----Original Message----- > From: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users- > boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] On Behalf Of Jan Nijtmans > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:28 AM > To: Fossil SCM user's discussion > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] UTF-8 and Binary Files > > 2014-08-25 22:52 GMT+02:00 David Botham <dbot...@infoblox.com>: > > 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. > > The easiest way to find out is just answer 'a' when fossil is giving the > warning. Your file will then automatically be converted from cp1252 to > valid UTF-8 and the commit is aborted. > Doing a diff then shows exactly which characters were causing the > warning.
thanks for the tip... > > > 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. > > You can safely suppress these warnings, Fossil never does something bad > with binary files. Perfect. david > > Regards, > Jan Nijtmans > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
