[darcs-devel] DARCS for Windows international development

[David Roundy]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:27:24PM -0700, Paul Schauble wrote:
> 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?
> Is this something the developers would be interested in doing?

It would be practical, but I don't know of any developers that would have
time to do so.  It wouldn't even be particularly hard, I suspect, the
trickiness would all be in handling the line endings, since darcs doesn't
do anything with the contents of lines (unless you use replace, which might
be broken).
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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University