From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: gitk does not recognizes ISO-8859-15 Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:23:39 -0800 Message-ID: <4391F0BB.7000800@zytor.com> References: <4391C6B8.7010507@yahoo.it> <7v4q5qyp5p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marco Costalba , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 03 20:24:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiczA-0006O8-TL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:23:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294AbVLCTXu (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:23:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751298AbVLCTXu (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:23:50 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59546 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751294AbVLCTXt (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:23:49 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jB3JNdLL013461 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:23:39 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v4q5qyp5p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Marco Costalba 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