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> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> > (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
>> > author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
>> > set, or set to utf-8.
>>
>> The problem is: you cannot easily recognize if it is UTF8 or not,
>> programatically. There is a good indicator _against_ UTF8, namely the
>> first byte can _only_ be 0xxxxxxx, 110xxxxx, 1110xxxx, 11110xxx. But there
>> is no _positive_ sign that it is UTF8. For example, many umlauts and other
>> special modifications to letters, stay in the range 0x7f-0xff.
>
> Still... that would be a good enough thing to have in the majority of
> cases, wouldn't it?
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>