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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT character codecs
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:47:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2005.11.14.04.47.25.899163@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v3bm0c0gf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I suspect you could just take the default from LANG and LC_CTYPE
> to cover 98% of the cases, and to cover the rest 2% the
> problematic cases have a per-window override menu.

Or, if you want to be super-flexible, just try to decode as UTF-8.
Success? fine -- otherwise use whatever your application's default is
set to, or your local encoding (which may of course also be UTF-8), or
fall back to 8859-15.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13  8:14 GIT character codecs Marco Costalba
2005-11-13 10:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  4:47   ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2005-11-13 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-14  6:31 Marco Costalba
2005-11-14  7:42 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-11-13 20:52 Marco Costalba
2005-11-12 12:37 Marco Costalba
2005-11-12 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano

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