RE: Can CVS process 16 bin characters?

[Arthur Barrett]

CVSNT forked from CVS many years ago and contains several extensions to
CVS 1.x including versioning Unicode files, eg:
http://march-hare.com/library/cvsnt/Substitution-modes.html

Eg:
cvs add -k+u filename.txt
cvs ci -m "new unicode file" filename.txt
type filename.txt >> filename.txt
cvs ci -m "new unicode rev" filename.txt
cvs diff -r 1.1 filename.txt

Files marked with they 'u' keyword substitution will be checked in/out
in UCS-2 (or UTF-16) encoding and internally stored as UTF-8 by the
server.

Note: this newsgroup is for CVS 1.x issues, for CVSNT (CVS 2.x) please
contact March Hare Software.

Regards,


Arthur


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 3:22 PM
> To: cvs-user-list
> Subject: Can CVS process 16 bin characters?
> 
> 
> I have an application (Windows) which writes XML in 16 bit characters
> (Unicode?).  I have several of the files under CVS source 
> control.  CVS
> sees the files as binary and does the obvious wrong thing with them.
> 
> Is CVS 16 bit aware and is there something I can do to change it to
> handle these unicode files as text ...or should I just take 
> my lumps or
> whatever?
> 
> It's not the end of the world.  The files are archived 
> properly.  I just
> don't like it taking up all that space...
> 
> 
>