{"thread":{"id":"9909","subject":"[PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages","startedAt":"2007-09-18T07:26:19Z","lastAt":"2007-09-20T09:08:29Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Mike Hommey","Junio C Hamano","Lukas Sandström"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"53406","messageId":"11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org","threadId":"9909","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages","fromName":"Mike Hommey","fromEmail":"mh@glandium.org","sentAt":"2007-09-18T07:26:19Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-18T07:26:19Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mh@glandium.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1038527?v=4"},"body":"The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, so\nUTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is\nnot very appealing.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>\n---\n Documentation/git-lost-found.txt |    2 +-\n 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt\nindex e48607f..82b0699 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt\n@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore\n \n Author\n ------\n-Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net>\n+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>\n \n Documentation\n --------------\n-- \n1.5.3.1\n"},{"id":"53430","messageId":"7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"9909","inReplyTo":"11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2007-09-18T09:15:35Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-18T09:15:35Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:\n\n> The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,\n\nOn which distro?\n\n> so\n> UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is\n> not very appealing.\n\nPerhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with\nDocumentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.\n"},{"id":"53434","messageId":"20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org","threadId":"9909","inReplyTo":"7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages","fromName":"Mike Hommey","fromEmail":"mh@glandium.org","sentAt":"2007-09-18T09:34:26Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-18T09:34:26Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mh@glandium.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1038527?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:\n> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:\n> \n> > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,\n> \n> On which distro?\n\nDebian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen\n(it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until\nvery recently)\n\n> > so\n> > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is\n> > not very appealing.\n> \n> Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with\n> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.\n\nI'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out.\n\nMike\n"},{"id":"53635","messageId":"46F2388D.2000207@etek.chalmers.se","threadId":"9909","inReplyTo":"7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages","fromName":"Lukas Sandström","fromEmail":"lukass@etek.chalmers.se","sentAt":"2007-09-20T09:08:29Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-20T09:08:29Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"luksan@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/152281?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:\n>> so\n>> UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is\n>> not very appealing.\n> \n> Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with\n> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.\n> \n\nThese days when we have delta reusing and repacking is quite cheap,\nI'd say just drop pack-redundant and its man page completely.\n\nOf course, some pople might still be using it, but I haven't\nfelt the need for it in over a year.\n\n/Lukas Sandström\n"}]}