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Re: specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 21, 2006, 09:51 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Me, keyboard and Emacs screwed up and stored it in ISO-2022
> > instead of UTF-8.  Sorry.
> It's a pity, but too late to change.[1]
> 
> What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on
> its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset).
We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710
Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8.

Hth, Dscho

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Message 5 of 39 in “Fix documentation copy&paste typo”
  1. Fix documentation copy&paste typoUwe Kleine-Koenig, Dec 8, 2006
  2. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 19, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2006
  4. specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo)Uwe Kleine-König, Dec 21, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 21, 2006
  6. Santi BéjarDec 21, 2006
  7. Alexander LitvinovDec 21, 2006
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 21, 2006
  9. Alexander LitvinovDec 21, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 21, 2006
  11. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 21, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2006
  13. Nicolas PitreDec 21, 2006
  14. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 21, 2006
  15. Alexander LitvinovDec 21, 2006
  16. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  17. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 22, 2006
  18. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 22, 2006
  19. Nicolas PitreDec 22, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  21. 1/2 libgit.a: add some UTF-8 handling functionsJohannes Schindelin, Dec 22, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  23. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  25. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  27. Alexander LitvinovDec 25, 2006
  28. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 22, 2006
  29. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 22, 2006
  30. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  31. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  32. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 23, 2006
  33. Johannes SchindelinDec 23, 2006
  34. warn non utf-8 commit log messages.Junio C Hamano, Dec 23, 2006
  35. Johannes SchindelinDec 23, 2006
  36. 2/2 git-commit-tree: if i18n.commitencoding is utf-8 (default), check itJohannes Schindelin, Dec 22, 2006
  37. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  38. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006
  39. 3/2 Wrap lines in shortlogJohannes Schindelin, Dec 22, 2006

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