Re: [PATCH 3/2] attribute "coding": specify blob encoding

> しらいしななこ  <nanako3@bluebottle.com> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> > 
> >> This teaches "diff hunk header" function about custom character
> >> encoding per path via gitattributes(5) so that it can sensibly
> >> chomp a line without truncating a character in the middle.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  * This is not intended for serious inclusion, but was done more
> >>    as a demonstration of the concept, hence [3/2].
> >

> >> +static struct {
> >> +	const char *coding;
> >> +	sane_truncate_fn fn;
> >> +} builtin_truncate_fn[] = {
> >> +	{ "euc-jp", truncate_euc_jp },
> >> +	{ "utf-8", NULL },
> >> +};
> >
> >Can you also do JIS and Shift JIS?  I ask because many of my
> >old notes are in Shift JIS and I think it is the same for many
> >other people. 
> 
> I guess somebody else could (hint, hint,...).  Shift_JIS should
> be more or less straightforward to add.
> 
> With the current code structure, however, ISO-2022 (you said
> "JIS" -- Japanese often use that word to mean 7-bit ISO-2022 and
> so did you in this context) is a bit cumbersome to handle, as
> you cannot just truncate but also have to add a few escape bytes
> to go back to ASCII at the end of line.