On 11.10.2013 18:52, Ben Reser wrote: > On 10/11/13 9:22 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> You'd have to extend Subversion's file type detection to detect UTF-16. >> See svn_io_detect_mimetype2 in line 3333 in this file: >> >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c?view=markup >> Subversion currently only looks at the first 1k Bytes of a file. It may >> be enough to check that this initial part of the file contains only >> valid UTF-16 (BE or LE) codes. > Even if all we looked for is the BOM it might be helpful enough. I suspect > the > development tools producing UTF-16 are including BOMs. Windows seems to be > fond of including them, Notepad puts one even on UTF-8.
That would work only on Windows. On other platforms, you typically don't get a BOM (actually, a zero-width non-breaking space) at the beginning of a file. Granted, other platforms most likely use UTF-8 in any case. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
