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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2015, #08; Mon, 23)

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Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Mar 25, 2015, 00:37 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> > * jn/gitweb-utf8-in-links (2014-05-27) 1 commit
> >  - gitweb: Harden UTF-8 handling in generated links
>
> This has been lingering in my 'pu' branch without seeing any updates
> since $gmane/250758; is anybody still interested in resurrecting it
> and moving it forward?

I can try to pick it up, but I am no longer sure that it is a good idea to solve the problem.

In particular git does not require that paths (i.e. filesystem) use utf-8 encoding; it could use latin1 / iso-8859-1 and non-utf8 octet.

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Jakub Narębski
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