Re: Recoding of {git,cg}-log output

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2006, 00:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602270133330.5275@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <44024384.4060406@people.pl>

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:

> First: a little "why": having /usr/bin/vim as PAGER allows to enter
> UTF-8 commit messages quite easily, the problem is when git-log (or
> cg-log) is run in terminal that's not UTF-8.

Of course, you could always set up a script doing the recoding and the paging, like

-- snip -- #!/bin/sh

iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-2 "$@" | vim -- snap --

and point your PAGER to that script (which is untested BTW). The advantage of this approach compared to adjusting git is that other programs use PAGER, too.

Hth, Dscho