From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:31:43 GMT Subject: Re: gitweb: charset problem Message-ID: <7vu0f5fqps.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > Consider if you started a project in EUC-JP, and then decided to switch to > UTF-8 later (when your environment handled it cleanly, perhaps). You could > convert... I am not saying that using UTF-8 is impossible in some situations. I am saying that if all involved parties agree to use something else in a private project, that is their choice and there is no reason to forbid it. They may be shooting in the foot in the long run, they may be not. For the internal project I was using as an example, I do not forsee anybody who does not do Japanese ever touching it, nor it needs to record any other language in the future (this comes from the nature of the project -- keeping track of some documents that are written in Japanese and we are not in translation business). Log and contents being encoded in EUC-JP is perfectly valid right now and in the future in that project. In such an application there is nothing gained by using UTF-8, and it will only inconvenience the users if we insisted on UTF-8.