Re: Keywords and subWCRev

On 18/07/07, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18/07/07, awoodjetts <adam.woodjetts@rentokil-initial.com> wrote:
> > Great. Now I don't feel stupid, because that is EXACTLY what I have done!
> > However it is still not being expanded or updated! I will go through and
> > check spelling etc etc.
> >
> > I'll look in the book for other options like date to see if that works.
> >
> > One thing did worry me though. You referred to a plain text document... does
> > that include MS Word, or have I just identified why its not performing as
> > expected?
>
> I just tested on a Word 2000 and it works. BUT you have to use the
> fixed length keywords form, so instead of $Revision$, you need
> $Revision:: $ where the keyword is followed by a double
> colon and enough spaces to contain the result. This is also documented
> in the SVN book.

However, I just inserted some arabic characters for fun, and all text
after that point appears in unicode. Subversion will not recognize the
keyword unless it is embedded in your doc as a plain ascii sequence.

Simon

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