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Re: svn:charset

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn_at_vinc17.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:24:17 +0200

On 2008-07-09 00:15:59 +0100, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> That said, I don't think "character set" is the right nomenclature.
> Wouldn't svn:encoding be the more accurate description? (And let's just
> ignore for a minute the "other" interpretation of "encoding" proposed in
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-08/0139.shtml, shall we?)

"encoding" can mean too many things, and I think svn:encoding would be
a bad idea concerning the consistency with other standards (precisely
because of this other interpretation). I'd say that svn:charmap would
be a more accurate description. 

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