[svnbook commit] r2138 - trunk/src/en/book
cmpilato
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Tue May 9 10:36:38 CDT 2006
Author: cmpilato
Date: Tue May 9 10:36:38 2006
New Revision: 2138
Modified:
trunk/src/en/book/ch03.xml
Log:
* src/en/book/ch03.xml
(What's in a Name?): Tweak broken text which made claims about
Subversion's handling of file contents and use of UTF-8 which were
at best confusing, at worst just plain wrong.
Modified: trunk/src/en/book/ch03.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/en/book/ch03.xml (original)
+++ trunk/src/en/book/ch03.xml Tue May 9 10:36:38 2006
@@ -330,16 +330,15 @@
Subversion places restrictions on information it
stores.</para>
- <para>Subversion handles text internally as UTF-8 encoded
- Unicode. As a result, certain items which are inherently
- <quote>textual</quote>, such as property names, path names,
- and log messages, can only contain legal UTF-8 characters. It
- also provides a minimum requirement for use of the
- <literal>svn:mime-type</literal> property—if a file's
- contents aren't compatible with UTF-8, you should mark it as a
- binary file. Otherwise, Subversion will attempt to merge
- differences using UTF-8, which is likely to leave garbage in
- the file.</para>
+ <para>Subversion internally handles certain bits of
+ data—for example, property names, path names, and log
+ messages—as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This is not to say
+ that all your interactions with Subversion must involve UTF-8,
+ though. As a general rule, Subversion clients will gracefully
+ and transparently handle conversions between UTF-8 and the
+ encoding system in use on your computer, if such a conversion
+ can meaningfully be done (which is the case for most common
+ encodings in use today).</para>
<para>In addition, path names are used as XML attribute values
in WebDAV exchanges, as well in as some of Subversion's
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