On February 27, 2019 9:09, Michal Suchánek wrote: > 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. Sadly, I did not personally build less on this platform, and the libc used did not include UTF-16, on the platform vendor supplied less. cat works fine, but the usual LESSCHARSET=utf-16 is unsupported, so I am looking for an alternative. THAT is why I think less does not support it. Sorry, I should have made that more clear. cat works fine, so if I set GIT_PAGER=cat, I can at least see the diffs cleanly in SJIS, but this partner wants a pager that is usable.
