From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ECE20248 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729957AbfB0QTn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:19:43 -0500 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:47973 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726223AbfB0QTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:19:43 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from gnash (CPE00fc8d49d843-CM00fc8d49d840.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.229.179.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x1RGJdwH044767 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:19:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) From: "Randall S. Becker" To: "=?UTF-8?Q?'Michal_Such=C3=A1nek'?=" Cc: References: <001e01d4ce9c$eff07400$cfd15c00$@nexbridge.com> <20190227150836.495f1692@kitsune.suse.cz> <000001d4ceb4$b930df50$2b929df0$@nexbridge.com> <20190227171103.4cbc735a@kitsune.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20190227171103.4cbc735a@kitsune.suse.cz> Subject: RE: Need multibyte advice - Shift-JIS Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:19:33 -0500 Message-ID: <000a01d4ceb8$3cd19720$b674c560$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQHTicsscbHaF10FfRV1Fywnm3yWvQI6Vn4cAU1TeogAvaPrzqXUMUuA Content-Language: en-ca Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On February 27, 2019 11:11, Michal Suchánek wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:54:23 -0500 > "Randall S. Becker" wrote: > > > On February 27, 2019 9:09, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:04:08 -0500 > > > "Randall S. Becker" wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Git Team, > > > > > > > > I have to admit being perplexed by this one. I have been asked to > > > > support the Shift-JIS character set in file contents, comments, > > > > and logs, for a partner of mine. I know there are a few ways to do > > > > this, but I'm looking for the official non-hacky way to do this. > > > > This is CLI only, and our pager, less, does not support > > > > multi-byte, so I'm looking > > for > > > options there also. > > > > > > SJIS is about as much multibyte as UTF-8. > > > > > > Why do you think less does not support it? > > > > > > Last time I looked there was SJIS locale for libc so it is only > > > matter of generating the correct locales and using them. Of course, > > > if you are > > running > > > in UTF-8 SJIS will look like garbage. > > > > Sadly, I did not personally build less on this platform, and the libc > > used did not include UTF-16, on the platform vendor supplied less. cat > > works fine, but the usual LESSCHARSET=utf-16 is unsupported, so I am > > looking for an alternative. THAT is why I think less does not support > > it. Sorry, I should have made that more clear. > > > > cat works fine, so if I set GIT_PAGER=cat, I can at least see the > > diffs cleanly in SJIS, but this partner wants a pager that is usable. > > > > So you want to use SJIS because UTF-16 is not supported. So what is the > problem with SJIS (or UTF-8 for that matter)? The partner I am working with is using multi-byte SJIS, which is also not supported by this incarnation of less. As a result, UTF-8 does not work either in this situation. The content is definitely multi-byte. I know this was fixed in RedHat's Less in 2016, but did not make this platform.