Re: specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo)

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On 12/21/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Me, keyboard and Emacs screwed up and stored it in ISO-2022
> > instead of UTF-8.  Sorry.
> It's a pity, but too late to change.[1]
>
> What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on
> its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset).

We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710

Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8.


Maybe git could have an example of the hook "commit-msg" that checks
that the commit message is in certain charset.

Santi
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