Re: Mixing encodings in one patch file

John Z wrote:
> Is it possible to mix encodings in one Unified Diff patch file?
>
> I have some Java projects, which have many ANSI encoded files and also
> many UTF-8 encoded files to support Asian languages, but when I create a
> patch file, the ANSI encoded text and UTF-8 encoded text appear in a
> same patch file and make it unreadable. I can't apply this patch either.
> There are so many files that I cannot anticipate the encoding of each
> file before I create a patch file.
>
> Is there a solution? Or, will TortoiseSVN auto detect the encodings, and
> auto group them, and ...auto generate two patch files, in the future?

Patching will get improved a lot in 1.7 since from then on, it's part of
the svn library and there's also a new patch format that includes
renames/moves properly and also includes svn properties.

Stefan

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