On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:00:07PM +0400, Alexander Gavrilov wrote: > > You are here missing the fact, that the actual current default for > git-gui is not utf-8, but 'binary', essentially equivalent to > ISO-8859-1. In this case, I was just confused by the comment to the patch, which was saying "Make diffs and blame default to the system (locale) encoding instead of hard-coding UTF-8." > UTF-8 was suggested by a patch that has been around in the > 'pu' branch since January, and which I took as a base for my series. > Gitk on the other hand uses the locale encoding. I see... Then your patch makes perfect sense regardless of Windows support, which was presented as the rationale for the patch. Thanks, Dmitry -- 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