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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?


From: Andrew Suffield
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:52:47 +0100
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:50:23PM +0200, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> I agree with Marcus. File's encoding is imho metadata as much as permisions
> are.

It's not. Encoding is data.

> For example how does tla/arch treat UTF-16 files? As text or as binary
> files?

It doesn't. That problem is delegated to diff.

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