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Re: gitweb - encoding problems

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
May 22, 2007, 00:33 UTC
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<1179794012.2771.112.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:57 +0200, Martin Koegler wrote:
> I use ISO-8859-1 as my locale, so my blobs, commits and tags are in
> this encoding.

That's a very strange thing for anyone to do in the 21st century. Did you configure this archaic thing correctly in .git/config?

Otherwise, gitweb will assume that you're using utf-8 like any normal person would, and of course you'll have problems when it tries to deal with your legacy character set as if it were something sensible.

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