SPIN Text Coding, UTF16, ASCII and GIT

MGreim

Hi,
i am using GIT as version control system. Its very easy to handle and
_very helpful_. One disadvantage of GIT is the lack of UTF16 support. So sometimes its a mess to commit SPIN files into git.
I tried to use
recode -f -g UTF-16..PC *.spin
(in Linux) to convert a file, but thats very dangerous, , mostly destroying the files.

I have seen that the forum software handles spin-files quite good. (upload and download).
So what tool are you using here?
Or is in 1.26 already an ASCII option? I am still using 1.25

Thanks for any hint

Markus

jazzed

I use a program (part of an unreleased package) to strip off the garbage and make it ASCII. I really don't need a schematics or pretty stars and bars in source code.

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--Steve

Propeller Tools

• Propalyzer: Propeller PC Logic Analyzer
• BMA: An on-chip PASM Debugger
• SPUD: Spin Source Level Debugger

BradC

MGreim said...

I have seen that the forum software handles spin-files quite good. (upload and download).
So what tool are you using here?

The forum software simply handles them as binary blobs. It does not try and diff them like GIT will.

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lt's not particularly silly, is it?

MGreim

Hi BradC,

are you sure? I uploaded some code some days ago, and downloaded it yesterday again (because i had shredder-ed my own source with recode..without backup..)
And what i have seen that i got ASCII back, but maybe this was handled by my browser (Opera) i am not sure

Markus

BradC

MGreim said...
Hi BradC,

are you sure?

Yes

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lt's not particularly silly, is it?

MGreim

This is only a test to check, what the forum software
does with *.spin files

Markus

MGreim

Hi BradC,
you are right. Things happened by chance, or i can't reproduce/repeat what i have really done
on Sunday

Thanks

Markus