Re: Does CVS work with unicode files?

[Larry Jones]

ccyf writes:
> 
> If files contain non-ascii characters, does cvs commands like diff 
> still work?

Yes, but CVS reads each byte as a separate character, so some encodings
can cause problems.  For example, if a file contains the sequence of
bytes "$", "I", "d", "$", even if they're really part of other
characters, CVS will do keyword substitution on them.

-Larry Jones

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