Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > I would say that the patch is an improvement from the current
> > code so it should hit 'master'; I was a bit busy lately and then
> > am sick, and also we are post -rc1 freeze now and I was being
> > cautious, just in case some nacks from more informed parties
> > arrive late.
>
> Sorry for the late nack, but it turns out that this patch breaks diff
> output on the Wine server for files that are not utf-8.
>
> The cause is apparently that decode_utf8() returns undef for invalid
> sequences instead of substituting a replacement char like
> decode("utf8") does.
>
> That may be considered an Encode bug since we are running a fairly old
> version (1.99, coming with Debian 3.1), but I'd rather not upgrade
> perl on the server. Could the patch be reverted, or done differently?
I hit the same problem:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117978122420441&w=2
On my system, I use this patch as workaround:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118038526531694&w=2
mfg Martin Kögler
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