Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 3, 2007, 23:37 UTC
Message-ID: <200712040037.37204.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071203230432.GA1337@wolf.clearchain.com>

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Benjamin Close wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:20:26AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > 
> > Can you try the attached patch?
> 
> I confirm that the patch corrects the problem.
> 
> Without it I get the Cannot decode string error. With it gitweb
> displays correctly.

But the patch _avoids_ issue (des not convert owner to utf8), rather than solving it, if I understand it correctly. What if gecos is in utf-8?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland