From: David Kågedal Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:56:00 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes Message-ID: <87k60alxv3.fsf@morpheus.local> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >> > "Horst H. von Brand" writes: >> > ... >> >> And what happens to the people who can't/won't display UTF-8? This is a >> >> both a project wide configuration (how does stuff get saved) + a user/local >> >> configuration (how to display stuff). >> > ... >> > Maybe i18n.displayencoding set to latin1 is what you are after? >> > I think it might make sense... >> >> I've done this and will be pushing the result out in 'next' >> shortly, with a new test. I find the result mostly sensible. > > Shouldn't the LANG environment variable be used for this purpose > instead? You mean LC_CTYPE, no? -- David Kågedal