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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?
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James Blackwell |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings? |
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Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:36:14 -0400 |
Marcus Sundman wrote:
> No. If arch doesn't keep track of the encoding of files then you have to
> communicate this piece of metadata information through some other channel
> (e.g. per email). A text file *always* has an encoding associated with it.
> There is no such thing as "plain text".
Arch doesn't know much of anything about encodings, other than whether diff
and patch parse a file as "binary" or "text".
Things get a little more complicated when you start talking about
file-ids, for which arch uses something called "pika-escaping".
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Vaclav Haisman, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Jan Hudec, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28