Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes

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Hi,

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I don't quite like it. Why if someone uses different encoding
> > that utf-8 because his terminal is not set to utf-8? Having suddenly
> > what looks like garbage on output, while input was in local encoding
> > (and specified in i18n.commitencoding) is a bit suprising...
> 
> If Luben wants UTF-8 in his project, but somebody he pulled from was 
> mistakenly used latin-1, then the commit pulled record latin-1 while 
> Luben has i18n.commitencoding in his repository set to UTF-8.  Output 
> will be done in UTF-8 for Luben.  For the originator of that latin-1 
> commit, i18n.commitencoding says latin-1 (and that was the only reason 
> he managed to create such a commit) and git show of that commit would 
> not involve recoding.

I think that this is a misunderstanding. Maybe the config variable is 
misnamed. As is clearly visible from the commit messages, this whole stuff 
is meant to reencode to whatever encoding the caller of git-log likes, not 
just UTF-8. And it defaults to UTF-8, overridable by i18n.commitEncoding.

BTW I think that latin-1 is not a valid encoding name (at least in my 
setup it isn't), so we should rather talk about iso-8859-1.

Ciao,
Dscho

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