From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:39:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] macos: lazily initialize iconv
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzhgTsHKhL599k7M6NzD5WUm72v3V+NYuCKs4uCPbnFzg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3xjit4h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.

> 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