On May 9, 2011, at 13:49, Bob Archer wrote: > It seems when I "svn add" unicode (UCS-2 Little Endian, I think it is) files > svn applies the svn:mime-type of application/octet to the files.
Correct. http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2194 > My question is, if I remove the property and just commit the file... are diff > and merge operations going to work fine? I highly doubt it. > Or, should I switch to plain ascii encoding? If your files can be represented in ASCII, by all means do that. If you need non-ASCII characters, consider using UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.
