From: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:10:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macos: lazily initialize iconv
Message-ID: <CAN0XMOL6m0B0bLwdp9mviOLqYORGcnf9LMS5=+WkXhGinBrzgA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3xjked0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> +       /* Avoid iconv_open()/iconv_close() if there is nothing to convert */
> +       for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
> +               if (has_utf8(argv[i], (size_t)-1, NULL))
> +                       break;
> +       }
> +       if (i < argc)
> +               return;
> +

I'm not very familiar with this code but:

before: it reencodes everything which is utf-8 in argv
after: it reencodes *nothing* if one string in argv is not in utf-8

am i wrong?