Re: [Monotone-devel] line endings as project policy

[Ulf Ochsenfahrt]

Nuno Lucas wrote:
> Line endings don't have a direct relation to character encoding. It's
> true that in theory you would need to know the character encoding to
> know what a line ending is (like the mentioned line ending Unicode
> character), but in practice there are only 3 "standard" line endings
> (LF, CR-LF and CR) and if some file uses any other you would need to
> use a special program for it, so it's better to treat the file as
> binary.
>
> An ASCII text can use any of the 3 line-endings. Some with an UTF-8
> text, ISO-8859-1, or any other. No way to know the line ending by the
> character encoding.

Yes, but UTF-8 is a _multi-byte_ encoding.
If you see an LF byte, you don't know whether this is a single-byte LF 
or part of a multi-byte sequence.
(I'm not sure if this is a problem with UTF-8 in particular, but it 
certainly is with 16 or 32-bit encodings, such as UTF-16 and UTF-32.)

-- Ulf

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