On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, > > On which distro? Debian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen (it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until very recently) > > so > > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is > > not very appealing. > > Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with > Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though. I'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out. Mike - 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