On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:05:53 -0500 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Including the Git list... > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:17:30PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > > commit 24ebead82bbf9785909d4cf205e2df5e9ff7da32 > > tree 921f686860e918a01c3d3fb6cd106ba82bf4ace6 > > parent 264166e604a7e14c278e31cadd1afb06a7d51a11 > > author Rafa³ Bilski <rafalbilski@xxxxxxxxxx> 1167691774 +0100 > > committer Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> 1167799119 -0500 > > > > and looking at that "author" closer with od: > > > > 0000140 74 68 6f 72 20 52 61 66 61 b3 20 42 69 6c 73 6b > > t h o r R a f a ³ B i l s k > > > > clearly not UTF-8. I doubt whether any of the commits I do on my > > en_GB ISO-8859-1 systems end up being UTF-8 encoded. > > This has been bugging me for a while. > Viewing the mail I applied in mutt shows his name correctly as Rafał > Applying it with git-applymbox and viewing the log on master.kernel.org > with git log shows Rafa<B3> And then later when put into email > it turns into Rafa³ > > > But the point is there is charset damage which has happened _long_ before > > Linus' action. There is no character set defined for the contents of git > > repositories, and as such the output of the git tools can not be > > interpreted as any one single character set. > > If there's something I should be doing when I commit that I'm not, > I'll be happy to change my scripts. My $LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 > which should DTRT to the best of my knowledge, but clearly, that isn't > the case. - 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