From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:24:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Reroll patches against v1.8.3.1
Message-ID: <7v38s5ymo9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130626073423.GA23688@ashu.dyn1.rarus.ru>

Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:28:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
> If someone can do the same with latin1, I'd be happy.
> ...
> But today I've taken a look to Cygwin's locales more closely and found
> out that I've used incorrect encoding name (`iso88595` instead of "canonic"
> `iso-8859-5` that Cygwin has and "understands")
>
> Nevertheless, as I've already said that is not a Russian locale specific
> issue.
> The problem in tests for me now is a language (that uses iso-8859-1
> encoding) I do not speak or even write ;)

Many of the people on thee list don't, either, and that is perfectly
OK.

For the purpose of the test, "áëîõù" should be sufficient. In a
sense, using such an artificial string would make it even clearer
than a real message that what we are testing, no?