From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: gitweb - encoding problems Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:33:32 -0400 Message-ID: <1179794012.2771.112.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20070521205721.GA21771@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski , Junio C Hamano To: Martin Koegler X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 22 02:33:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqIK0-0006Hl-Ud for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 02:33:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762038AbXEVAda (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759365AbXEVAda (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:33:30 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37400 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762038AbXEVAd3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:33:29 -0400 Received: from 1cc-dhcp-81.media.mit.edu ([18.85.46.81]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HqIJa-0003xm-VK; Tue, 22 May 2007 01:33:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070521205721.GA21771@auto.tuwien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:57 +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: > I use ISO-8859-1 as my locale, so my blobs, commits and tags are in > this encoding. That's a very strange thing for anyone to do in the 21st century. Did you configure this archaic thing correctly in .git/config? Otherwise, gitweb will assume that you're using utf-8 like any normal person would, and of course you'll have problems when it tries to deal with your legacy character set as if it were something sensible. -- dwmw2