From: David Woodhouse Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:53:51 GMT Subject: Re: OT: character encodings Message-ID: <1168221232.14763.80.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <45A17645.1030905@imap.cc> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 23:37 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > That depends on your point of view. David's assertion was that git > > internally uses UTF-8. > > Well, I'm inclined to say he was wrong. Git internally is completely > oblivious to character encoding. See the 'i18n.commitencoding' property, stored in the repository config and defaulting to UTF-8. Git is certainly capable of converting to its internal storage encoding when you commit; if it doesn't do so by default then that would be a bug. -- dwmw2