LiuYan 刘研 wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:53:37 +0000: > Daniel Shahaf <d.s <at> daniel.shahaf.name> writes: > > > > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 18:13:44 +0100: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:06:19PM +0000, LiuYan 刘研 wrote: > > > > I mean, if the revprops files are not in UTF-8 encoding, don't return > REPORT > > > > Small correction: it's meaningless to talk about the encoding of the > > revprop files; it's only meaningful to talk about the encoding of the > > value of a given property. > > > > (At the revprop files level, the values are binary, and the rest of the > > data in those files is always ASCII.) > > > > > > You're right Daniel, but in such situation, these revprop files can be > treated > as readable text files:
This is simply not true: if you apply 'iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8' to a revprop file, you will CORRUPT that revprop file.