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[PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 07:26 UTC
Message-ID
<11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, so UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is not very appealing.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---
 Documentation/git-lost-found.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
index e48607f..82b0699 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
 
 Documentation
 --------------
-- 
1.5.3.1
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Message 1 of 4 in “Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages”
  1. Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pagesMike Hommey, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2007
  3. Mike HommeySep 18, 2007
  4. Lukas SandströmSep 20, 2007

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