Re: Strange choice for mime-types

On 10.04.2010 00:09, Dmitriy Kravtsov wrote:
> On 9 april 2010 22:54, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com
> <mailto:simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>>The resource files are unicode and svn is not unicode-aware although
> TMerge is.
>
> It causes troubles with context menu action "create patch", it displays
> following instead of actual difference(for instance - one for resource.h):
>
> Index: resource.h
> ===================================================================
> Cannot display: file marked as a binary type.
> svn:mime-type = application/octet-stream
>
> Also, TortoiseMerge creates wrong patches for these files, which can be
> reproduced by "svn diff --force"

That's because the svn lib can't handle utf16 files properly when doing
text diffs (no problem of course for other operations).

> By the way I checked - same files for TortoiseBlame don't have this
> mime-type and have an eol-style:normal.

The rc files for TMerge and TProc are in utf16 because of problems we
get otherwise with translations and the special chars other languages use.

Stefan

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