From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitk does not recognizes ISO-8859-15
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:23:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4391F0BB.7000800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4q5qyp5p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:
>
>
>>So here we arrive. I see two ways to deal with this:
>>
>>1) *solution* make gitk use IANA names
>>
>>2) *workaround* get from somewhere the list of Tcl/Tk recognized codec names and
>>teach qgit to do the map from IANA when setting a codec with "git-repo-config
>>i18n.commitencoding"
>
>
> The intent of i18n.commitencoding is to have something that is
> understood by iconv there, so if gitk does not work with these
> things spelled like. ISO8859-1 or ISO-8859-15, and qgit is happy
> with them, I would say that we should fix gitk, which means
> *workaround* should be on the tcl/tk side.
>
> Tcl/Tk expert may have more thoughts (and I suspect experiences)
> on this, but I am not one of them.
>
I would say that the only sustainable ruleset is to use IANA rules for
character name resolutions, if multiple tools are to be able to use them.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-03 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-03 16:24 gitk does not recognizes ISO-8859-15 Marco Costalba
2005-12-03 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-03 19:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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