[PATCH] byte range

[Daniel Shahaf]

Richard Cavell wrote on Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 23:54:44 -0400:
> Richard

> Index: ch03-advanced-topics.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- ch03-advanced-topics.xml	(revision 4106)
> +++ ch03-advanced-topics.xml	(working copy)
> @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@
>          <para>UTF-16 is commonly used to encode files whose semantic
>            content is textual in nature, but the encoding itself makes
>            heavy use of bytes which our outside the typical ASCII
> -          character byte range.  As such, Subversion will tend to
> +          character range.  As such, Subversion will tend to

That's a wrong change.

Firstly, the issue IS about the bytes that each encoding uses.

Secondly, comparing ASCII codepoint values to UTF-16 byte values is bogus.

>            classify such files as binary files, much to the chagrin of
>            users who desire line-based differencing and merging,
>            keyword substitution, and other behaviors for those

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