Re: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

[Harald Kucharek]

Hugi Thordarson wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric, et al.
> 
> I did some searching on Google and found a lot of information on this issue.
> CVS reads each byte in a file as a character, so it can't handle double-byte
> encodings, including Unicode UTF-16, which my editor automatically promotes
> documents to when double-byte characters are entered. (in content, not file
> names)
> 
> Solutions:
>         a) Don't use Unicode
>         b) Store them s binary (yuck)
> 
> So, I'm changing my nationality and moving to a country with a single byte
> language soon :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Hugi
> 

I presume you are aware of the fact that using solution b) would mean to loose 
all
the nice merging capabilities of CVS and boost the speed at which your 
repository size
increases.

Q: Are there any plans for a Unicode-capable CVS?

Harald

PS: Just learned from a search engine that CVS also stands for Cyclic Vomiting 
Syndrome...
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