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| author | Sander Sweers <infirit@gmail.com> | 2018-05-27 22:33:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2018-06-09 18:17:48 +0000 |
| commit | ec616c2aa5584d116116713f5b0286e428bb9b45 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a0a285847ee708c679a3b8f2129195d448472ea /docs | |
| parent | 461cf0cba147907a21a8942c8df3deb09d321723 (diff) | |
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configure_file: Add release snippet for encoding keyword
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/configure_file_encoding.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/configure_file_encoding.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8082177 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/configure_file_encoding.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## New encoding keyword for configure_file + +Add a new keyword to [`configure_file()`](#Reference-manual.md#configure_file) +that allows the developer to specify the input and output file encoding. + +If the file encoding of the input is not UTF-8 meson can crash (see #1542). +A crash as with UTF-16 is the best case and the worst meson will silently +corrupt the output file for example with ISO-2022-JP. For additional details +see pull request #3135. + +The new keyword defaults to UTF-8 and the documentation strongly suggest to +convert the file to UTF-8 when possible. |