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
next prev parent 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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