[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] converting documentation to UTF-8

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:38:19AM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:52:05AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > Where in the process is conversion needed? Shouldn't editors be able to
> > handle it transparently? I think even subversion can convert if you use
> > "svn di" (not 100% sure though).
> 
> When editing on a non-utf system. And at least my editor (vim 6.1) isn't
> able to handle it transparently (although it's so little work, I can
> thing of it as transparent and I don't complain about it), or, more

set fileencodings+=utf-8
in your vimrc.

> probably, I haven't found how to make it happen. And letting SVN handle
> it is a Bad Idea, as XML documents contain encoding in first line.
> I don't think SVN is smart enough to change this as well, so if you let
> SVN to, for example, let user have the file in their own encoding and
> convert it to utf-8 on commit, then either user or repository is going
> to have wrong encoding information, thus breaking build probably.

No, of course not, I was only talking about "svn diff" to e.g. review
changes.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger