[darcs-users] How do I specify the source file encoding?

[Alexandr N. Zamaraev]

Trent W. Buck writes:
>> How do I specify the source file encoding?
> You can't.  Darcs does not encode or decode files; it merely operates on
> sequences of bytes (which for "text" files, are delimited by byte #x0A).
Darcs can not transcode files.
SVN does not do this too.
But SVN allows you to add additional file properties.
Using these properties of external utility can get the information they 
need, such as coding, programming language or executable.
Is there such a mechanism in Darcs?