Base filetypes

text

Text file

Synced as text in the workspace. Line-ending translations are performed automatically.

binary

Non-text file

Synced as binary files in the workspace. Stored compressed within the depot.

symlink

Symbolic link

Helix Server applications on UNIX, macOS, recent versions of Windows treat these files as symbolic links. On other platforms, these files appear as (small) text files.

On Windows, you require admin privileges or an appropriate group policy must be set, otherwise, you get text files.

unicode

Unicode file

Services operating in unicode mode support the unicode file type. These files are translated into the local character set specified by P4CHARSET.

Line-ending translations are performed automatically.

Services not in unicode mode do not support the unicode file type.

For details, see the Internationalization Notes.

utf8

Unicode file

Synced in the client workspace with the UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark).

Whether the service is in unicode mode or not, files are transferred as UTF-8 in the client workspace.

Line-ending translations are performed automatically.

For details, see the Internationalization Notes.

utf16

Unicode file

Whether the service is in unicode mode or not, files are transferred as UTF-8, and translated to UTF-16 (with byte order mark, in the byte order appropriate for the user’s machine) in the client workspace.

Line-ending translations are performed automatically.

For details, see the Internationalization Notes.

apple

A legacy format of Apple Inc.