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Re: [PATCH] #7 OS400/EBCDIC Port: Make svn_io_copy_file() CCSID insensitive.

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2006-02-25 00:01:47 CET

Paul Burba wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> (Don't know what the OS400/EBCDIC port is about? See:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-02/0519.shtml)
>
> Following on the heels of my last patch comes another related to file
> CCSIDs - see http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-02/1298.shtml for more on
> the horror of CCSIDs. That noise you hear is Julian throwing himself off
> a cliff after reading this...or possibly plotting to throw me off a cliff
> 8-o
>
> On OS400 apr_file_copy() is sensitive to the source and destination files'
> CCSIDs in that it attempts to convert the contents of the source file from
> its CCSID to the CCSID of the destination file. If the files' CCSIDs
> differ from each other and/or the system CCSID, the destination file is
> likely to be corrupted.
>
That just made _me_ jump out the window. Luckily I'm on the second
floor, it was only a 6m drop.

-- Brane

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