From e3b98c7fe46d1ecfc6246b76fbc2282ad61c0afb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Martin Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:55:32 -0700 Subject: doc encoding support --- doc/manual.asciidoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 62941ad..4e160ad 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ A file is a series of declarations. A declaration can be one of: Lexical syntax ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Ninja is mostly encoding agnostic, as long as the bytes Ninja cares +about (like slashes in paths) are ASCII. This means e.g. UTF-8 or +ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work. + Comments begin with `#` and extend to the end of the line. Newlines are significant. Statements like `build foo bar` are a set -- cgit v0.12