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From: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git-gui messes up the diff view on non ASCII characters
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:30:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711092230.37905.barra_cuda@katamail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071109154935.GC28800@xp.machine.xx>

On Friday 09 November 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:
> I'm managing some UTF-8 encoded LaTeX files in git, which include some
> non ASCII characters like the german ä,ö and ü. If I view the diff with
> git-diff on an UTF8 enabled terminal, all looks nice. So does the diff
> view in gitk after I commited my changes. Only git-gui shows some
> "strange" characters, so I assume it is an encoding problem.
> 
> I have to admit that I'm totally unaware how this should work, but at
> least I think my configuration is correct here, because otherwise git-diff
> or gitk would show the same behaviour. Is there anything which could be
> done to make git-gui happy, too?

It's a known issue, and already on Shawn's ToDo list. I have to add that
viewing untracked UTF8 files in git-gui works just fine. Weird.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-09 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09 15:49 git-gui messes up the diff view on non ASCII characters Peter Baumann
2007-11-09 21:30 ` Michele Ballabio [this message]
2007-11-11  5:59   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-11 11:20     ` Johannes Schindelin

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