From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:59:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [EGIT] UTF-8 in author names in history views read as ISO-8859-1
Message-ID: <200709272059.32934.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <200709272053.41795.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

torsdag 27 september 2007 skrev Robin Rosenberg:
> 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