Re: [ros-dev] utf-16 data (e.g. inf files)

[François Revol]

>   Hi folks,
>  
>  due to the perpetual problems with utf-16 files I recommend to change 
>  the 
>  handling in the following way as long as we don't have another 
>  working 
>  translation system (mui) and we want to keep a win32 compatible inf 
>  file:
>  We should store the files in subversion as utf-8 and convert during 
>  make and 
>  rbuild in utf-16 (e.g. via small c-programm or new rbuild-command), 
>  so we can 
>  edit and make diffs in an easy way. 
BeOS has xtou but I think something like iconv is more crossplatform 
and should be available on Linux and win32 as well...
UTF-8 seems definitely better as cross-platform format anyway, but I'm 
just a guest here ;)

François.