The use of this statement is generally discouraged, and is too intrusive for us: it forces the HTTP requests made by the API to contain only valid UTF-8 characters. This would break the upload of binary files. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki index 781dfe2..f2e841e 100755 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki @@ -36,11 +36,10 @@ use strict; use MediaWiki::API; use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; -use encoding 'utf8'; -# use encoding 'utf8' doesn't change STDERROR -# but we're going to output UTF-8 filenames to STDERR +# By default, use UTF-8 to communicate with Git and the user binmode STDERR, ":utf8"; +binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; use URI::Escape; use IPC::Open2; -- 1.7.11.5.g0c7e058.dirty -- 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