Line ending translation extension

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 12.09.2009 15:46, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann writes:
> 
>  > Since we switched almost all source files to use LF line ends only,
>  > I haven't heard of any problem ever since. Contributors send patches
>  > to the -devel mailing list, and these are applied without problems.
> 
> Sure, because the mail system does exactly what the proposed extension
> does, except that it requires the user to handle true binaries
> differently.  Didn't you realize that?

Probably not. And I understand next to nothing about Unicode.

But I wouldn't try to use patches for binary files.