Support for Unicode files

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:30 -0700, Paul Schauble wrote:

> That's too bad. Is there any chance of adding support?
> 
> I develop internationalized software for Windows. For example, my 
> current project contains files in Simplified Chinese, Greek, German, 
> English, and chezkoslovakian. All these are coded in UTF-16LE. 

I'm sure we can add support at some point. Specifically we would need to
ensure that we serialise merged files in the original text encoding
rather than as utf-8, which is what would happen by default once we
teach bzr to obtain the text from a utf-16LE encoded file.

Probably this is sufficiently likely to cause unexpected consequences
like this that it will need some thought - a wiki page gathering details
would be a good idea.

-Rob