[chirp_devel] [PATCH] Allow specification of the hexdump address format

[Dave Nathanson]

I'm sure you already have it under control, but TextWrangler can change encoding as easy as "Save As..."

Best,
 Dave Nathanson
 KG6ZJO


On Jul 18, 2014, at 3:27 PM, chirp.cordless at xoxy.net wrote:

> On Jul 18, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Dan Smith - dsmith at danplanet.com  wrote:
>> I just saved the raw email out of thunderbird on a mac and it had
>> standard rfc822 CRLF endings:
>> 
>> theine:chirp.hg dan$ file test.patch
>> test.patch: ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators
>> 
>> Trying to hg import it failed exactly as it did for you:
>> ...
>> I converted it to LF-only and it applied just fine:
>> 
>> theine:chirp.hg dan$ file test.patch
>> test.patch: ASCII English text
>> 
>> Good luck!
> 
> That helps more than you might have expected.
> The problem isn't the line termination, it's the character
> encoding, I think. On my system, your patch save from Mail.app:
> 
> dan[Desktop]$ file dsmith.patch.txt
> dsmith.patch.txt: UTF-8 Unicode English text
> 
> My patch generated from hg:
> 
> dan[dev_work1]$ file 1767.patch 
> 1767.patch: ASCII English text
> 
> I can't get to this immediately, but I'm sure I can figure out how
> to convert UTF-8 to ASCII, which I think means UTF-7.
> Or save it that way from Mail.app. Maybe copy/paste 8-)
> I'm probably self-contained for now, but I won't be getting
> back to this right away.
> 
> -dan
> 

In case you prefer bottom posting:

I'm sure you already have it under control, but TextWrangler can change encoding as easy as "Save As..."

Best,
 Dave Nathanson
 KG6ZJO