On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:04:08 -0500 "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Git Team, > > I have to admit being perplexed by this one. I have been asked to support > the Shift-JIS character set in file contents, comments, and logs, for a > partner of mine. I know there are a few ways to do this, but I'm looking for > the official non-hacky way to do this. This is CLI only, and our pager, > less, does not support multi-byte, so I'm looking for options there also. SJIS is about as much multibyte as UTF-8. Why do you think less does not support it? Last time I looked there was SJIS locale for libc so it is only matter of generating the correct locales and using them. Of course, if you are running in UTF-8 SJIS will look like garbage. HTH Michal
