Re: [RFC] Print diffs of UTF-16 to console / patches to email as UTF-8...?

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Oct 22, 2010, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID: <1287768426.31218.75.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20101022171248.GA11794@burratino>

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 12:12 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Hi again,
> 
> Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > That still doesn't fix the crlf issue, for starters. Also, I would like
> > to be able to email patches for files that are in UTF-16 and properly
> > re-import them. Unless I'm missing something really big there's not much
> > that a display filter is going to do for me there.
> 
> Right, I think you're missing something big.  textconv is a display
> filter.  clean/smudge convert between internal and external
> representation (and your clean/smudge scripts could take care of CRLF
> themselves if desired).
> 
> That said, I wouldn't be surprised if clean/smudge filters don't do
> everything you want.  If you do go that way, please keep the list
> posted so the mechanism can be improved.

Well I shall plumb the documentation again.... just in case. I'm not holding my breath that it will do what I (and frankly a fair number of other people) want. We just want version control that treats text like text. FULL STOP. Why isn't UTF-16 text???????

> And longer term, maybe people will want something tailor-made after
> all?  I just imagine it would be more productive to try out the
> generic mechanisms first.

Please forgive me for being offended that UTF-16 text is not "generic" enough.

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-Drew Northup N1XIM
   AKA RvnPhnx on OPN
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