Migrating templates to UTF-8?
timeless
timeless at myrealbox.com
Thu Feb 24 10:57:30 UTC 2005
David Miller wrote:
> I'm not sure offhand what CVS would do, I think it just treats it as
> 8-bit data, and probably slightly sloppily if it matches something that
> looks like an RCS keyword. I'm cross-posting this to the developers
> list as I don't think the localizers list has that big of an audience
> (and was really only intended for distributing template-related security
> information to the template authors prior to security releases).
>
> We do have UTF-8 data in CVS currently, both in the Bugzilla source code
> for contributors' names, as well as in the website source, and haven't
> run into any problems with it, but we might just be lucky.
http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/
Unicode Files
UNICODE files must be marked BINARY; otherwise, CVS will corrupt them.
The latest CVSNT server can handle UCS-2 (NT UNICODE) and UTF-8 files.
UCS-2 files "cvs add -ku"
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