Re: specify charset for commits

From: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Dec 21, 2006, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20061221191141.GB27072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vejqtaz7q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ?
> 
> I do not think we want to change the commit header, nor we would
> want to re-encode, but I can see two possible improvements:
> 
>  (1) git-am should default to -u; this was suggested on the list
>      long time ago, but is an incompatible change.  v1.5.0 we
>      can afford to be incompatible to make it more usable and
>      safer.
> 
>  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
>      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
>      set, or set to utf-8.
> 
>      Maybe later we can use encoding validation routines for
>      other encodings by checking i18n.commitEncoding, but at the
>      minimum the above would be safe enough for recommended UTF-8
>      only cases.

As I only want to use UTF-8 both suggestions are fine for me.

Is there a generic way to check an encoding? (I don't know if there is an encoding that can encode everything. If so, we could use iconv -f $enc -t superencoding. Until now I thought UTF-8 can do, but in the post Johannes pointed out, you (Junio) implyed that it cannot.)

Best regards Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-König

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