[TxMt] Mercurial Bundle: Diff Commands

[Allan Odgaard]

On 16. May 2007, at 09:29, Eike Bernhardt wrote:

> [...]
> since without the iconv call I'd get empty diff windows (probably
> because of incorrectly encoded german special chars inside the  
> generated
> diff) -- but I'm not shure if this is just a local problem.

What encoding do you use for your source files?

The official party line is that all TM commands which work with files  
“on disk” expect these to be in UTF-8.

This includes stuff like diff’ing (via the SCM system), finding TODO  
tags in your project, etc.

It also includes output from programs you run in TextMate, e.g. the  
various ScriptMate derivatives (PerlMate, RubyMate, PyMate, etc.),  
the Xcode target runner, etc.

Having all these commands handle encoding is quite a lot of  
complexity (and non-trivial, since encodings (other than the various  
UTF-n variants) can’t be determined safely by just looking at the file).