hg handles text file in unicode as binary file

[Gábor Farkas]

ibn at ikeeper.cn wrote:
 >
 > hg handles text file in unicode as binary file ? no diff or cat ?
 >

you have to define what you mean by "unicode".

for example, as a test, i took some japanese text, and put it into a 
textfile, encoded in UTF-8.

then i committed it, and changed it, and then a 'hg diff'
correctly showed the diff.


but when i repeated this test with the text in UTF-16, then it showed up 
as a binary file.


so i recommend to you to have the data in UTF-8. it should work then.

gabor