From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:55:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-gui: Use gitattribute "encoding" for file content display
Message-ID: <7v7ii1ozly.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080123054709.GA13166@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> git-gui: Use gitattribute "encoding" for file content display
>
> Most folks using git-gui on internationalized files have complained
> that it doesn't recognize UTF-8 correctly.  In the past we have just
> ignored the problem and showed the file contents as binary/US-ASCII,
> which is wrong no matter how you look at it.

Hmmm.

At least for now in 1.5.4, I'd prefer the way gitk shows UTF-8
(if I recall correctly latin-1 or other legacy encoding, as long
as LANG/LC_* is given appropriately, as well) contents without
per-path configuration without introducing new attributes.