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[PATCH 4/8] builtin-mailinfo.c: use "ISO8859-1" instead of "latin1" as fallback encoding

From
Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
May 18, 2009, 23:44 UTC
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Some platforms do not understand the character encoding "latin1" which is another name for "ISO8859-1". So use "ISO8859-1" instead which all tested platforms understand.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
---
 builtin-mailinfo.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-mailinfo.c b/builtin-mailinfo.c
index c68187e..92637ac 100644
--- a/builtin-mailinfo.c
+++ b/builtin-mailinfo.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static const char *guess_charset(const struct strbuf *line, const char *target_c
 		if (is_utf8(line->buf))
 			return NULL;
 	}
-	return "latin1";
+	return "ISO8859-1";
 }
 
 static void convert_to_utf8(struct strbuf *line, const char *charset)
-- 
1.6.3.1.24.g152f4
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Message 5 of 9 in “character encoding portability updates”
  1. 0/8 character encoding portability updatesBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  2. 1/8 t3900: use ancient iconv names for backward compatibilityBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  3. 2/8 Use 'UTF-8' rather than 'utf-8' everywhere for backward compatibilityBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  4. 3/8 builtin-mailinfo.c: compare character encodings case insensitivelyBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  5. 4/8 builtin-mailinfo.c: use "ISO8859-1" instead of "latin1" as fallback encodingBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  6. 5/8 t3901: avoid negation on right hand side of '|'Brandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  7. 6/8 t3901: Use ISO8859-1 instead of ISO-8859-1 for backward compatibilityBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  8. 7/8 t9301: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1Brandon Casey, May 18, 2009
  9. 8/8 t5100: use ancient encoding syntax for backwards compatibilityBrandon Casey, May 18, 2009

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