[darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Jun 22 16:06:48 PDT 2007


> I do international software development for Windows. This means
> I have a bunch of source files in Unicode/UTF-16LE.

> At present, DARCS does not handle this format, except as a pure binary file. 

> Would it be practical to add UTF-8 and UTF-16BE and LE formats with full diff/merge support?

Ehm... what is wrong with the current support for UTF-8?

(Personally, I'm not a great fan of UTF-16, which I think is a gross
mis-design, but I understand that people on legacy platforms might
need it to be supported.)

                                        Juliusz


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