Hello!
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Guus Leeuw wrote:
> > From: ccyf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > If files contain non-ascii characters, does cvs commands like diff
> > still work?
>
> Nope. There are two possible ways of dealing with these:
> 1. Just check them in as ASCII, and possibly get them corrupted...
> as CVS doesn't understand UNICODE
> 2. cvs add -kb <unicode-file> them, so that CVS thinks they're binary
> and leaves them alone (doesn't try to do *anything* with
> the contents of the file.
I am by no means an expert in Unicode, but shouldn't UTF be of some help
here? I believe that the line endings in UTF are normal UNIX line endings.
UTF contains no characters that could confuse CVS.
It is important that CVS understands files as sets of lines, so that it
can make diffs and merge sources.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
