From 38fa281448b7729a6c68f9aeeeafd7c539caf507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sander Sweers Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:26:33 +0100 Subject: Add new encoding keyword for configure_file to manual Also add a section how to deal with file encodings. --- docs/markdown/Configuration.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/markdown/Configuration.md') 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: -- cgit v1.1