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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:44:19 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
> > ...
> >> And what happens to the people who can't/won't display UTF-8? This is a
> >> both a project wide configuration (how does stuff get saved) + a user/local
> >> configuration (how to display stuff).
> > ...
> > Maybe i18n.displayencoding set to latin1 is what you are after?
> > I think it might make sense...
> 
> I've done this and will be pushing the result out in 'next'
> shortly, with a new test.  I find the result mostly sensible.

Shouldn't the LANG environment variable be used for this purpose 
instead?


Nicolas