Unicode file content conversion

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 12/06/2014 02:16 AM, Eugene Lepekhin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right list for my question. If not please advise a 
> better one.
>
> I have SVN repo that I need to convert to HG. The problem is a few .C 
> files there encoded in Unicode-16 with FF FE bam. I prefer them in 
> UTF-8 as it better handled by HG. Is there any way to convert them 
> during, or before, or after converting repo to HG? I want to see 
> correct diffs in the converted history.
>

You can use the convert extension, with customization based on the 
example on 
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension#Customization .

You probably need something like

if name.endswith('.c'):
     data = data.decode('utf16').encode('utf8')

/Mads
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