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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: GIT character codecs
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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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