Re: CVS and unicode

[Jim Hyslop]

Christian Hujer wrote:
> This is not the point of the program but of the file specification.
> If a file specification says "This is a text file. Line endings always have to 
> be LF, regardless of the operating system."
In that case, the specification is broken: line endings are defined by 
the operating system, not by a file specification. Suppose I defined a 
file specification as: "This is a text file. Line endings always have to 
be ASCII 0x7f, regardless of the operating system."

> I have to be the ruler over line endings and encodings, because this is the 
> only way I can make sure that every single byte in the file is the way I 
> want. For me this is also true in the context of version controlled text 
> files.
This seems to be a case of the tail wagging the dog. You have cited one 
particular example where automatic line ending conversion is a problem. 
Should we invalidate thousands of other use-cases where automated line 
ending conversion is not only desirable, but the correct course of action?

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Jim