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[PATCH 0/2] Locally alias "latin-1" to "ISO-8859-1"

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2016, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20160927012211.9378-1-gitster@pobox.com>

Some systems do not seem to ship "latin-1" as a valid locale, even though they happilly accept more modern official name "ISO-8859-1". Naturally, "iconv -f iso-8859-1" succeeds while "iconv -f latin-1" fails on such a system.

We already have in utf8.c to accomodate overly strict iconv_open() that does not like various spellings of UTF-8 when our users spell it differently from the most official "UTF-8" form. Piggyback on the mechanism and teach outselves that "latin-1" used to be the way to say "ISO-8859-1".

I feel dirty for doing it this way, but I found it the easiest workaround to apply recent patches we saw on the mailing list.

Junio C Hamano (2):
  utf8: refactor code to decide fallback encoding
  utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1
 utf8.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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2.10.0-556-g5bbc40b
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  1. 0/2 Locally alias "latin-1" to "ISO-8859-1"Junio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  2. 1/2 utf8: refactor code to decide fallback encodingJunio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  3. Jeff KingSep 27, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016
  5. 2/2 utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1Junio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  6. Jeff KingSep 27, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016

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