Support for Unicode files

[Aaron Bentley]

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Paul Schauble wrote:
> The documentation I can find it rather vague on this subject. 
> 
> Does Bazaar handle Unicode files, specifically UTF-16LE?

Bazaar will treat UTF-16 and UTF-32 files as binary files, because they
usually contain NUL bytes.  UTF-8 is fine.

> And provide the 
> same diff/merge capabilities that are provided for code page encoded 
> files?

Because they are treated as binary, UTF-16 and UTF-32 will not support
diff.  Merge will not work when both sides have changed the file, but it
will work when only one side has changed the file.  Everything will work
fine with utf-8.

Diff is a binary operation, so if it was supported, it would only be
legible if you had a utf-16 terminal.

Aaron
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