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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Subject: StGit and charsets
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:21:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910808040721n6c47908o9d8fabd8f16293c1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Do you have tests in place to handle the names and comments in patches
being in different charsets? When I was working with the mailmap file
a large source of errors was from mangling names in alternate
charsets. I recall errors in Finnish, Japanese and Chinese names for
sure. I don't know which tools did the charset mangling.

I don't work much with international charsets. If someone is using
something like Russian or Finish locally, is the metadata in the patch
converted to UTF8 before exporting or sending it as mail? Comments
should be in English, but people's names may need UTF8. And what about
email addresses, does DNS allow Unicode names now?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 14:21 Jon Smirl [this message]
2008-08-04 15:31 ` StGit and charsets Karl Hasselström
2008-08-04 15:21   ` Jon Smirl

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