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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:00:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4344AF8A.1040504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvf0b9t0d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>gitk should try to use UTF-8 encoding for system operations, such as
>>reading and writing files and git output.
> 
> I agree about commit messages, but I am not so sure about the
> file contents (aka user data).  Is it possible to control them
> separately?
> 

git needs to be able to treat user data as arbitrary binary blobs. 
However, if interpreting as text, UTF-8 is the right default, at least.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06  2:12 [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding Pavel Roskin
2005-10-06  4:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-06  5:00   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-06  5:34     ` Pavel Roskin

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