From: Pavel Roskin Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:34:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding Message-ID: <1128576895.31571.8.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <4344AF8A.1040504@zytor.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:00 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Pavel Roskin writes: > > > >>gitk should try to use UTF-8 encoding for system operations, such as > >>reading and writing files and git output. > > > > I agree about commit messages, but I am not so sure about the > > file contents (aka user data). Is it possible to control them > > separately? Yes. "encoding convertfrom" should do the trick. In some projects, there may be files written in different encodings, such as gettext *.po files. A patch updating several *.po files would have different parts in different encodings. I think gitk could have a submenu in the popup menu with the encodings to chose from. > git needs to be able to treat user data as arbitrary binary blobs. > However, if interpreting as text, UTF-8 is the right default, at least. I agree. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin