[Monotone-devel] Representing EBCDIC history in monotone

[hendrik]

I'm working on a retrocomputing projecr, and I'm trying to create a 
monotone archive that is (a) useful, and (b) faithfully indicates the 
historical record.

Now the original code I'm restoring consists mostly EBCDIC files.  To be 
at all readable on most modern machines, it has been converted to ASCII.  
For the most part, this works OK.  A brief historical note that they 
were once EBCDIC will probably satisfy the historians, if any.  Further 
development will be in ASCII anyway, and will be checked into a monotone 
repository in the usual manner.

But there are a few small files containing lots of characters not in the 
ASCII character set.  These are tables used by the lexical scanner to 
classify characters.  It makes no sense to translate the weird 
characters into ASCII.  But leaving them out will violate the 
development history.

Any advice?

-- hendrik