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Subject: Re: specify charset for commits
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:01:54 -0800
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> >  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
>> >      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
>> >      set, or set to utf-8.
>> 
>> The problem is: you cannot easily recognize if it is UTF8 or not, 
>> programatically. There is a good indicator _against_ UTF8, namely the 
>> first byte can _only_ be 0xxxxxxx, 110xxxxx, 1110xxxx, 11110xxx. But there 
>> is no _positive_ sign that it is UTF8. For example, many umlauts and other 
>> special modifications to letters, stay in the range 0x7f-0xff.
>
> Still... that would be a good enough thing to have in the majority of 
> cases, wouldn't it?

I think that would be very sane thing to do.