Re: specify charset for commits

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 22, 2006, 15:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612221030440.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612220351520.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
> >      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
> >      set, or set to utf-8.
> 
> The problem is: you cannot easily recognize if it is UTF8 or not, 
> programatically. There is a good indicator _against_ UTF8, namely the 
> first byte can _only_ be 0xxxxxxx, 110xxxxx, 1110xxxx, 11110xxx. But there 
> is no _positive_ sign that it is UTF8. For example, many umlauts and other 
> special modifications to letters, stay in the range 0x7f-0xff.

Still... that would be a good enough thing to have in the majority of cases, wouldn't it?

Nicolas