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Re: [PATCH] t8005: use more portable character encoding names

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 22, 2009, 16:22 UTC
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
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> ...  I hesitate to send it since it does not actually allow any
> tests to pass which were previously failing for me.  At least the utf-8 to
> UTF-8 shouldn't cause any harm.  The shift-jis to SJIS seems to be commonly
> supported?  at least IRIX 6.5 and Solaris as old as 7 recognize it, but the
> evidence is only empirical.  Modern Solaris, and of course Linux recognize
> either.

Perhaps the test can be changed from using cp1251 (whatever that is) to something more common (e.g. 8859-1)?

There was another more large-ish patch to the tests around this area recently from you. I liked them but somehow failed to queue any of them yet, sorry.

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Message 2 of 15 in “t8005: use more portable character encoding names”
  1. t8005: use more portable character encoding namesBrandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2009
  3. Brandon CaseyMay 22, 2009
  4. Alex RiesenMay 22, 2009
  5. 1/2 t8005: use more portable character encoding namesBrandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  6. 2/2 t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5Brandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2009
  9. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  10. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  11. Brandon CaseyMay 26, 2009
  12. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  13. Brandon CaseyMay 26, 2009
  14. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2009

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