From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:36:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-gui: Use gitattribute "encoding" for file content display
Message-ID: <20080124033640.GM24004@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ii1ozly.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > git-gui: Use gitattribute "encoding" for file content display
> >
> > Most folks using git-gui on internationalized files have complained
> > that it doesn't recognize UTF-8 correctly.  In the past we have just
> > ignored the problem and showed the file contents as binary/US-ASCII,
> > which is wrong no matter how you look at it.
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> At least for now in 1.5.4, I'd prefer the way gitk shows UTF-8
> (if I recall correctly latin-1 or other legacy encoding, as long
> as LANG/LC_* is given appropriately, as well) contents without
> per-path configuration without introducing new attributes.

Hmm.  I'll try to rework something along those lines for 1.5.4 then.

-- 
Shawn.