Re: [Monotone-devel] line endings as project policy

[Nuno Lucas]

On 11/22/06, Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:33, Nuno Lucas wrote:
> > Don't mix character encoding problems with the end-of-line issue. They
> > are very different beasts.
>
> But in order to know what you are doing when converting different types of eol
> into each other, you have to know what the encoding of the file is, not?
>
> Or, at least, you have to know whether it is encoded in one of the many
> encodings that extend ascii in the one way or the other.

Line endings don't have a direct relation to character encoding. It's
true that in theory you would need to know the character encoding to
know what a line ending is (like the mentioned line ending Unicode
character), but in practice there are only 3 "standard" line endings
(LF, CR-LF and CR) and if some file uses any other you would need to
use a special program for it, so it's better to treat the file as
binary.

An ASCII text can use any of the 3 line-endings. Some with an UTF-8
text, ISO-8859-1, or any other. No way to know the line ending by the
character encoding.


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas