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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: use decode_utf8 directly

From
AJAlexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Date
Jun 1, 2007, 16:51 UTC
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<87ejkvty7k.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>
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<200706011650.10650.ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> writes:
> Sorry but thats too old. Of course I am not the maintainer of GIT so its not 
> for me to decide but well as David Woodhouse puts it, please join us in 21st 
> century and start using UTF-8.

That's not very helpful. There can be many valid reasons for not using utf-8, in our case compatibility with Windows tools is the main reason. And even if we were to convert all our files today, it wouldn't help when browsing older versions.

I'm not asking gitweb to magically guess the encoding of the files, I'm happy with it replacing invalid sequences with some substitution char, like it did before 1.5.2. But now it is deleting whole lines from the diff, without any indication that something went wrong. That's not an improvement IMNSHO.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
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Message 14 of 21 in “gitweb: use decode_utf8 directly”
  1. gitweb: use decode_utf8 directlyIsmail Dönmez, Apr 24, 2007
  2. Ismail DönmezApr 27, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2007
  4. Ismail DönmezApr 27, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2007
  6. Ismail DönmezMay 1, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2007
  8. Ismail DönmezMay 1, 2007
  9. Ismail DönmezMay 1, 2007
  10. Ismail DönmezMay 3, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2007
  12. Alexandre JulliardJun 1, 2007
  13. Ismail DönmezJun 1, 2007
  14. Alexandre JulliardJun 1, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2007
  16. Ismail DönmezJun 1, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2007
  18. Ismail DönmezJun 1, 2007
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2007
  20. Ismail DönmezJun 3, 2007
  21. Jakub NarebskiJun 2, 2007

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