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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by René Vestergaard <rv...@techno-matic.dk> on 2006/09/04 11:23:56 UTC

Is Unicode / UTF-16 supported

Hi,

We are running subversion version 1.2.3 on the server-side and
prepare to start a development project in Visual Studio Pro 2005.

I have read that there is some issues about unicode text format.
Are unicode supported in the newest versions of subversion or
will it anytime soon?

By "unicode supported" I mean that you can use merge/diff and
that the "automatically merge function" works like it does
on other text-files.
Without "unicode supported" and when the files are treated
as binary files you will offen get conflicts.

Links to related information:
-----------------------------
Unscheduled milestone at subversion site:
  (Support Unicode encodings other than UTF8 as plain text)
  http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2194
Standards from IBM (see UTF-16):
  (Unicode encodings, How to interoperate between UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32)
  http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-u-encode.html
Perforce way to handle it:
  ([p4] subversion to perforce)
  http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/perforce-user/2005-July/015943.html

Best Regards
 René Vestergaard

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Re: Is Unicode / UTF-16 supported

Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Sep 4, 2006, at 13:23, René Vestergaard wrote:

> We are running subversion version 1.2.3 on the server-side and
> prepare to start a development project in Visual Studio Pro 2005.
>
> I have read that there is some issues about unicode text format.
> Are unicode supported in the newest versions of subversion or
> will it anytime soon?
>
> By "unicode supported" I mean that you can use merge/diff and
> that the "automatically merge function" works like it does
> on other text-files.
> Without "unicode supported" and when the files are treated
> as binary files you will offen get conflicts.

No, Subversion does not currently handle UTF-16 as text; it handles  
it as binary. This is the relevant enhancement request:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2194



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