Re: make cvs text agnostic?

[Richard Wesley]

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>
>  > Autodetection of binary, and perfect reversible
> >  conversion between text formats is quite feasible,
> >  so this scheme should fly....
>
> Autodetecting between binary and text is far from trivial. It's fairly
> easy when you're talking about English only material, but it gets much
> harder when languages with 8-bit characters are involved.

I find that on systems that have file metadata (like MacOS) this can 
be done quite reliably.  But most systems do not support this, and 
others have pointed out, detecting this from the raw contents of the 
file is impossible in a number of situations.

- rmgw

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