[cvsnt] Re: Cut off binary file in CVSNT 2.5.01.1976 (maybe unicode issue)

[Tony Hoyle]

Oliver Koltermann wrote:
> The only thing worth noting is maybe, that the file has the
> substitution mode 'u' in the log output. Revisions 1.1 and 1.2 are
> also mode 'u'. Beginning with 1.3 all revisions have mode 'b'.

You switched file mode to binary..  that means everyhing comes out 
literally... it's a different situation (you also lose merge, keywords, 
etc.).

0xd0 isn't special to cvsnt at all.  btw. is this the source data in 
UTF8 (in which case it's the first part of a two character encoding) or 
the destination data in UCS2?

> Does anybody have an idea what's causing this strange behaviour?
> Should I change the old revisions modes away from 'u'? And how would I
> do this? (cvs admin? :-S)

You don't want to do this as the revision deltas are stored as UTF8 not 
UCS2 like the binary version will be.  There's no way to safely 
retroactively change the type of an old revision (maybe for some minor 
changes, but definately not -ku to -kb).

Tony