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| author | Sander Sweers <infirit@gmail.com> | 2018-02-25 12:26:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2018-06-09 18:17:48 +0000 |
| commit | 38fa281448b7729a6c68f9aeeeafd7c539caf507 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b31c9071b4017588fcefba9ca08d82d2cbc81f4 /docs/markdown/Configuration.md | |
| parent | 47785bf89b56bd111080d8a26d9f8bca9bb4d25c (diff) | |
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Add new encoding keyword for configure_file to manual
Also add a section how to deal with file encodings.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Configuration.md b/docs/markdown/Configuration.md index 89f423c..8b79bc6 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Configuration.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Configuration.md @@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ Will produce: #define BAR ``` +## Dealing with file encodings + +The default meson file encoding to configure files is utf-8. If you need to +configure a file that is not utf-8 encoded the encoding keyword will allow +you to specify which file encoding to use. It is however strongly advised to +convert your non utf-8 file to utf-8 whenever possible. Supported file +encodings are those of python3, see [standard-encodings](https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings). + # A full example Generating and using a configuration file requires the following steps: |