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Re: Need multibyte advice - Shift-JIS

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Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date
Feb 27, 2019, 14:08 UTC
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<20190227150836.495f1692@kitsune.suse.cz>
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:04:08 -0500 "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:

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> Hi Git Team,
> 
> I have to admit being perplexed by this one. I have been asked to support
> the Shift-JIS character set in file contents, comments, and logs, for a
> partner of mine. I know there are a few ways to do this, but I'm looking for
> the official non-hacky way to do this. This is CLI only, and our pager,
> less, does not support multi-byte, so I'm looking for options there also.
SJIS is about as much multibyte as UTF-8.
Why do you think less does not support it?

Last time I looked there was SJIS locale for libc so it is only matter of generating the correct locales and using them. Of course, if you are running in UTF-8 SJIS will look like garbage. 

HTH
Michal
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