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Re: [PATCH v2] macos: lazily initialize iconv

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2012, 20:39 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Eek.

Oh, I agree. Doing a full character set conversion both ways is quite a bit more work.

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> Not just write_entry() codepath that creates the final paths on the
> filesystem, you would need to touch lstat() calls that check the
> existence and freshness of the path, once you go that route.  I am
> sure such a change can be made to work, but I am not sure how much
> we would gain from one.

I think it might be interesting. I doubt it matters all that much any more in Western Europe (Unicode really does seem to have largely taken over), but I think Japan still uses Shift-JIS a lot.

Although maybe that is starting to fade too.
And it really is just a generalization of the OS X filesystem damage.
            Linus
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  1. macos: lazily initialize iconvJunio C Hamano, Jul 31, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2012
  3. Ralf ThielowJul 31, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2012
  5. macos: lazily initialize iconvJunio C Hamano, Jul 31, 2012
  6. Ralf ThielowJul 31, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2012
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2012
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  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2012
  11. Torsten BögershausenAug 1, 2012
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