RE: changing the encoding - file is corrupted

[Arthur Barrett]

Gurpreet,

 

If you are working with Unicode / UTF-8 and UTF-16 files on Mac and Windows you may want to try CVSNT (it's free, GPL just like CVS) it understands unicode as a "diffable" format. (I think it's -ku).

 

You can download it from www.cvsnt.org and ask questions on the mailing list:

http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
Or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt

 

CVSNT is the default client for WinCVS (it usually comes bundled with it).  Alternatively you can download CVSNT client/server for Mac OS X from the Apple site:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/cvsntconcurrentversioncontrol.html

 

Regards,

 

Arthur Barrett

 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2005 2:27 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: changing the encoding - file is corrupted

Hi,

I have a .xsl (text) file which had few revisions (added with wincvs) with UTF-8 encoding-format. Now when I have converted that file  to UTF-16 encoding with XML spy editor - this file is getting corrupt after adding the same - specially in windows only - in Mac its fine..

Changing the filetype to *binary* is the imm. workaround - but with it I wont be able to get diffs of it.

I am using WinCVS as a client and CVS 1.11.17.
Any other area where we can look-into to check / resolve this ....
Thanks.

Regards,
Gurpreet S