RE: Need multibyte advice - Shift-JIS

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2019, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID: <000001d4ceb4$b930df50$2b929df0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190227150836.495f1692@kitsune.suse.cz>

On February 27, 2019 9:09, Michal Suchánek wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:04:08 -0500
> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> 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

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> 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.