From: Shin Kojima <shin@kojima.org>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 10:22:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitweb: apply fallback encoding before highlight
Message-ID: <20160505102203.GA53576@skmba.local>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeg9hhb1e.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

> Oh, don't get me wrong. I do think what the patch does is very
> sensible and have no intention of rejecting it.

I'm sorry for making you worry, my poor English had caused some
misunderstanding.  I raised this Shift_JIS related problem (a.k.a
"ダメ文字" in Japanese) might attract your interest knowingly.

I would like to hear frank opinions from engineers who have high
abilities like you. ;)

> As I said, the question was "Just out of curiosity", since it's been
> so long since I was in any part of software work done in Japan.

Having said that, many people in Japan are still suffering from these
character encoding barriers.  This was a huge shock for me, since
I was studying information science in China as a Japanese foreign
student.