Re: GIT character codecs

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 13, 2005, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511130948020.3263@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051113081443.38296.qmail@web26309.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Marco Costalba wrote:

> 
> If encoding is a per-blob _and_ per-log message property a real solution, although cumbersone,
> could be that git stores encoding togheter with the blob and the commits.

We'd be much better off with just saying "we encourage people to use utf-8, but if you don't, just set your locale to make things show up properly".

utf-8 is clearly the future, and if we make git internally aware of locales, that's just going to complicate things. And usually for no good reason, since users don't really care that much.

I really hate codepages. I'd much rather say:
 - git is 8-bit clean, so you can use any damn encoding you want
 - utf-8 is strongly recommended for all the same reasons it's recommended 
   for anything else.

Hmm?

		Linus