Re: [PATCH] gitk branch name encoding utf-8 probrem

From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2019, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20191205205052.aaw4q57y2hlzghgd@yadavpratyush.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimmuzfe1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Hi 加藤一博,

On 05/12/19 12:28PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 加藤一博 <kato-k@ksysllc.co.jp> writes:
> 
> > fix branch name encoding error on gitk.
> >
> > git checkout -b '漢字'
> > gitk show branch name broken like this '貍｢蟄'
> > fix this problem.
> 
> Paul (the gitk maintainer), the patch text itself does look
> reasonable.
> 
>     After "git checkout -b '漢字'" to create a branch with UTF-8
>     character in it, "gitk" shows the branch name incorrectly, as it
>     forgets to turns the bytes read from the "git show-ref" command
>     into Unicode characters.

This commit message would work for the git-gui patch as well (change 
"gitk" to "git-gui").

> is how I would phrase the log message.
> 
> Thanks.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav