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Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2011, 18:47 UTC
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<7v7h3qz2yo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20111027181303.GF1967@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I'm tempted to detect the UTF-{16,32}{LE,BE} by their BOM, reencode them
> to utf8, and then display them in utf8. Is that too gross for us to
> consider?

I tend to think so; it is entirely a different matter if the user instructed us to clean/smudge UTF-16 payload into/outof UTF-8.

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  1. Jeff KingOct 22, 2011
  2. Robin RosenbergOct 23, 2011
  3. Jeff KingOct 23, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
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  8. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
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  15. Jeff KingOct 24, 2011
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  23. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011
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  25. Miles BaderOct 28, 2011
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