From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:30:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Non-ASCII paths and git-cvsserver
Message-ID: <200611131930.18300.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <ej9utk$44p$1@sea.gmane.org>

måndag 13 november 2006 15:20 skrev Jakub Narebski:
> sf wrote:
> > Thanks, Junio. Paths with umlauts are returned correctly now both in
> > UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. I guess git-cvsserver is now as encoding agnostic
> > as git core.
>
> By the way, now that git has per user config file, ~/.gitconfig, perhaps
> it is time to add i18n.filesystemEncoding configuration variable, to
> automatically convert between filesystem encoding (somthing you usually
> don't have any control over) and UTF-8 encoding of paths in tree objects.

I'd prefer git to store filenames and comments in UTF-8 and convert on 
input/output when and if it is necessary rather than forcing everybody to 
take the hit. Most systems, but far from all, already use UTF-8 so it's a 
noop for them. The only reason I want conversion is for the years to come 
where we still live in two worlds of non-utf-8 and utf-8 and then forget 
about everything non-utf-8, rather than carry around the baggage forever.