2010/1/15 Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com> > On Thursday 14 January 2010, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 13:15, Harald-René Flasch wrote: > > > what should I do in order to make keyword expansion on Unicode text > files > > > working (e.g. .inf files)? > > > > > > - BOM is FF FE (used Notepad Save As --> Unicode to create the file) > > > - There is only the svn:keywords property on the file > > > > Sorry, AFAIK there still isn't a way to make svn:keywords work in UTF-16 > > files. > > That said, you might be able to store them as UTF-8, which is another full > Unicode-capable format and even more common than the used UTF-16. Using > UTF-8, keywork expansion simply works. > > Uli >
AFAIK, the root of the issue is SVN treating UTF-16 files as binary. Once that's resolved, keyword expansion will work automagically. I have no idea how complicated this would be to resolve, but my guess is that it's non-trivial or it would have never been an issue in the first place. R.
