JP Mens17h ago

GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

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Show threaddiesch16h ago
@jpmens @gumnos Looks interesting. But as far as I see there is no way to tell which char encoding a recfile uses.
Show threadTim Chase

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The last time I poked at the code (it's been a couple years), it was 8-bit clean, so you could use whatever 8-bit encoding you wanted (acknowledging that it might struggle with UTF16 or UTF32 and their LE/BE variants) as long as you were consistent. So I've had no trouble with the handful of UTF8 characters I've used in my address-book.

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