Re: Ascii/binary detection.

Alan Shutko wrote:

>cmpilato@collab.net writes:
>
>>The point is that some work needs to be done to create the
>>Subversion Binariness Heuristic, and your suggestions are good ones.
>>
>
>I don't have any specific suggestions here, but it would be good when
>deciding the heuristic to take a bunch of non-english text files
>(esp. CJK in various encodings) and try to make sure they aren't
>always seen as binary.
>
I agree. But if we can't be sure, we have to default to binary, so that
even if we're wrong, the file doesn't get munged during commit.

>Extremely long lines also needs some judgement, because of people who
>create text files where they use a newline per paragraph.
>
True, that's why I suggested checking line length as a last resort. If
we're cautious and mark the file binary unless we're sure it's not,
there's no harm done.

    Brane

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