Re: [gitweb PATCH] Configure encoding

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 31, 2005, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20050531101217.GA25555@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050531091955.GA22706@vrfy.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:19:55AM CEST, I got a letter where Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> told me that...

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> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Thomas Kolejka wrote:
> > The following patch makes it easy to change the encoding:
> > 
> > 
> > --- gitweb.cgi.177      2005-05-31 09:43:17.000000000 +0200
> > +++ gitweb.cgi.p        2005-05-31 09:48:46.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
> >  my $my_uri =           $cgi->url(-absolute => 1);
> >  my $rss_link = "";
> >  
> > +my $encoding = "utf-8";
> > +$encoding = "iso-8859-1";
> 
> The upstream version will not support anything but the one and only
> sane encoding which is utf-8. It will not provide options to switch
> back to the 80's, sorry. :)

This matters mainly for commits, right?

Perhaps I should recode from current locale to utf8 in cg-commit?

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