[darcs-users] locking

[Max Battcher]

Marnix Klooster wrote:
> The solution seems very simple to me: have new patch type that contains 
> a *character-based* diff, instead of the currently used (and 
> traditional) line-based diff.
> 
> This requires no knowledge of the structure of the file contents, and is 
> fairly robust (i.e., leads to sensible diffs) when only small changes 
> are made, such as wording changes, layout changes, etc.

Well, then you have to worry about character sizes and encodings a lot 
more.  Characters may be anywhere between 7-bits (non-extended ASCII, 
among others) to 16-bits (Unicode) to 32-bit ("Wide" Unicode), and in 
some languages their "characters" actually contain sequences of several 
Unicode characters.

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