From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:56:21 GMT Subject: Re: Do a better job at guessing unknown character sets Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think this makes sense from a "the world is moving to utf-8" > standpoint, even if obviously some people might consider it a bit ugly > to do per-line "guessing". > > Comments? IMHO this is a good change. Encodings are such a hassle, and probably only because the inventors of ASCII just were narrow-minded enough not to care. With this patch, the hassle factor diminishes AFAICT. Ciao, Dscho P.S.: I think that in case of undesired behaviour, even if it is detected late in the game, filter-branch/rewrite-commits will help.