Re: [gitweb PATCH] Configure encoding

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: May 31, 2005, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20050531104425.GA23755@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050531101217.GA25555@pasky.ji.cz>

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:12:17PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> 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...
> > 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?

Yes. Also the content of the files, but fortunately they are just plain ascii most of the time. :)

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

Everthing else than utf-8 is just a complete mess with data shared across multiple machines. All modern distributions defaulting to utf-8 anyway, so I think it is sane to recode that utf-8.

Kay