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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: character encodings
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:53:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168221232.14763.80.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A17645.1030905@imap.cc>

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 23:37 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> > That depends on your point of view.  David's assertion was that git
> > internally uses UTF-8.
> 
> Well, I'm inclined to say he was wrong. Git internally is completely
> oblivious to character encoding.

See the 'i18n.commitencoding' property, stored in the repository config
and defaulting to UTF-8. Git is certainly capable of converting to its
internal storage encoding when you commit; if it doesn't do so by
default then that would be a bug.

-- 
dwmw2

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08  1:53 UTC|newest]

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2007-01-07 20:15                 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Sean
2007-01-07 20:40                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 21:07                     ` Xavier Bestel
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2007-01-08  1:53                     ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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