On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:23:29PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > But maybe it would be nicer to say something like: > > > > error: your commit message contains NUL characters. > > hint: This is often caused by using multibyte encodings such as > > hint: UTF-16. Please check your editor settings. > > I think the error message with the hint is much better for users, but > isn't the term "multibyte" a little misleading here? It seems like > it's really _wide_ encodings that are generally the culprit. Yeah, wide is probably a better term. I'm not sure it is rigorously defined anywhere, but in general I think it refers to the set of encodings that do not care about the embedding of 8-bit ascii bytes as subsets. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html