From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:44:19 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vbqlo4zg8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > "Horst H. von Brand" writes: > > ... > >> And what happens to the people who can't/won't display UTF-8? This is a > >> both a project wide configuration (how does stuff get saved) + a user/local > >> configuration (how to display stuff). > > ... > > Maybe i18n.displayencoding set to latin1 is what you are after? > > I think it might make sense... > > I've done this and will be pushing the result out in 'next' > shortly, with a new test. I find the result mostly sensible. Shouldn't the LANG environment variable be used for this purpose instead? Nicolas