[Monotone-devel] Re: character set.

[Lapo Luchini]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:04 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > In the manual, it says,  Monotone's transmission and storage forms are
> > otherwise unchanged. Packets and database contents are 7-bit clean
> > ASCII.
> >
> > Now does this apply to file contents?  On my system everything is
> > Unicode by default.  Does it get converted to 7-bit ASCII for storage?
>
> The manual is out of date.  Database storage is binary, 8-bit clean,

Wow, how old is that?
I began using mtn a good couple of years ago, and all I remember about 
storage (I don't remember where I read it) is that I was pleasantly 
surprised by the fact that content was *always* using binary diffs and 
only using text for merging or annotating or so…

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