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Re: [EGIT] UTF-8 in author names in history views read as ISO-8859-1

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2007, 18:59 UTC
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torsdag 27 september 2007 skrev Robin Rosenberg:
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> Encoding is largeley neglected. Actually conversions are made because one
> has to, but there is no consistency there. Git mostly neglect encodings and
> so does anything that attempt to be compatible with it. I have some patches
> towards improvement. A problem is that conversion to or from UTF-8 and back
> are not reversible, especially when the input is invalid for the conversion. This
> *will* happen when dealing with git repos that contain non-ascii comments or
> file names.
A confession. The only thing we do cater for is the encoding header in commits.
-- robin
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