From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:15:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Message-ID: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> Mike Hommey writes: > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, On which distro? > so > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is > not very appealing. Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.