GIT character codecs

[Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>]

Hi all,

   this morning I pulled from git repo and tried to look at Junio japanese name with:

      git-diff-tree -p e6bd23911efd0a2bd756c77d9e7ba6576eb739a1

With my big sorry the name was erroneously shown on my box.

I modified qgit to force the use of utf-8 codec instead of the local one, 
in my case ISO-8859-15.

Now I can see Junio name in beautiful japanese characters, and also the 
correct 'Lukas Sandstrom' name.

The problem is now qgit on my local git archives no more correctly 
shows special italian characters.

So here we arrive at the points:

1) If utf8 is the 'only good one' for GIT repos why git-diff-tree uses 
the local codec, in my case ISO-8859-15.

2) If utf8 is not the 'only good one' but the commits are always saved using the
local codec, how is possible to set the correct codec to use after pulling 
from a remote repo with a different codec (in this case public git repo that 
is in utf8).

Thanks
Marco



		
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