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

[Daniel Reimer]

Matthias Kupfer wrote:
> 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.
>
> Comments are very welcome
>
> Matthias
>
>    
I like the idea. Its a good way to get infs easily editable, too.