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From: | Lapo Luchini |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Re: character set. |
Date: | Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:57:53 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080618) |
Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:04 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:In the manual, it says, Monotone's transmission and storage forms are otherwise unchanged. Packets and database contents are 7-bit clean ASCII. Now does this apply to file contents? On my system everything is Unicode by default. Does it get converted to 7-bit ASCII for storage?The manual is out of date. Database storage is binary, 8-bit clean,
Wow, how old is that?I began using mtn a good couple of years ago, and all I remember about storage (I don't remember where I read it) is that I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that content was *always* using binary diffs and only using text for merging or annotating or so…
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