Re: [TortoiseCVS] CVS file types

[Arthur B. <art...@ma...>]

Richard,


> ASCII is a single byte character.
> UTF (8/16/32/64) is a technique of supporting multi-byte characters.
>=20

As far as the CVS type identification goes - all we are interested in is
the line terminator.  Provided the line terminator is the LF (unix
client) or CRLF (windows client) then it is a 'text' file.  OK if the
file contains binary 'x00' then it also has to be a binary file or
otherwise it cannot be read.

CVSNT should automatically detect the BOM if there is one - however a
BOM is generally only used on Windows.  I'm not sure if the BOM
detection only occurs for UTF16 files or not...

Regards,


Arthur Barrett