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Re: [PATCH (GIT-GUI,GITK) 1/8] git-gui: Cleanup handling of the default encoding.

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Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2008, 17:00 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It is not about how data are stored locale but what is in repository.
> Even if you still have some Linux box with legacy encoding on it, you
> still want to see what in repository, which is mostly likely to be in
> UTF-8. Even if you do not have UTF-8 locale, all decent editors are
> capable to read and store files in UTF-8 (even if it is not your locale),
> and it is really make sense to store files in UTF-8, which makes sense
> because you are going then on a modern Linux, you want to have all data
> in the repository to be in a single encoding, and UTF-8 is the best
> choice for that.

A new user would expect to see his files properly, and they are likely to be in the locale encoding. And if you know about utf-8, you can open the Options dialog, and select it explicitly from a menu. And if you commit a .gitattributes file with encoding specifications to the repository, it will be used automatically wherever you check it out.

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> This patch is certainly a big improvement, as it allows to choose what
> encoding you want to see, but I was not sure that changing the default
> from UTF-8 to the system locale is really a good idea for anything but
> Windows specific projects. Anyway, I have converted all computers that
> I use regularly to UTF-8, so I don't really care...

You are here missing the fact, that the actual current default for git-gui is not utf-8, but 'binary', essentially equivalent to ISO-8859-1. UTF-8 was suggested by a patch that has been around in the 'pu' branch since January, and which I took as a base for my series. Gitk on the other hand uses the locale encoding.

Alexander
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Message 26 of 44 in “Encoding support in GUI”
  1. 0/8 Encoding support in GUIAlexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  2. 1/8 git-gui: Cleanup handling of the default encoding.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  3. 2/8 git-gui: Add a menu of available encodings.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  4. 3/8 git-gui: Allow forcing display encoding for diffs using a submenu.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  5. 4/8 git-gui: Optimize encoding name resolution using a lookup table.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  6. 5/8 git-gui: Support the encoding menu in gui blame.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  7. 6/8 gitk: Port new encoding logic from git-gui.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  8. 7/8 gitk: Implement file contents encoding support.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  9. 8/8 gitk: Support filenames in the locale encoding.Alexander Gavrilov, Sep 17, 2008
  10. Johannes SixtSep 19, 2008
  11. Alexander GavrilovSep 19, 2008
  12. Johannes SixtSep 19, 2008
  13. Alexander GavrilovSep 21, 2008
  14. Johannes SixtSep 22, 2008
  15. Johannes SixtSep 22, 2008
  16. Alexander GavrilovSep 22, 2008
  17. Johannes SixtSep 22, 2008
  18. Alexander GavrilovSep 22, 2008
  19. Johannes SixtSep 22, 2008
  20. Alexander GavrilovSep 22, 2008
  21. Dmitry PotapovSep 22, 2008
  22. Dmitry PotapovSep 18, 2008
  23. Alexander GavrilovSep 18, 2008
  24. Johannes SixtSep 18, 2008
  25. Dmitry PotapovSep 18, 2008
  26. Alexander GavrilovSep 18, 2008
  27. Dmitry PotapovSep 18, 2008
  28. Paul MackerrasSep 17, 2008
  29. Alexander GavrilovSep 18, 2008
  30. Paul MackerrasSep 21, 2008
  31. Alexander GavrilovSep 22, 2008
  32. 1/2 check-attr: add an internal check_attr() functionDmitry Potapov, Oct 5, 2008
  33. 2/2 check-attr: Add --stdin-paths optionDmitry Potapov, Oct 5, 2008
  34. Johannes SixtOct 6, 2008
  35. 1/2 check-attr: add an internal check_attr() functionDmitry Potapov, Oct 7, 2008
  36. 2/2 check-attr: Add --stdin-paths optionDmitry Potapov, Oct 7, 2008
  37. Shawn O. PearceOct 8, 2008
  38. Dmitry PotapovOct 12, 2008
  39. Jakub NarebskiOct 12, 2008
  40. Dmitry PotapovOct 12, 2008
  41. Paul MackerrasOct 10, 2008
  42. Dmitry PotapovOct 12, 2008
  43. Johannes SixtOct 1, 2008
  44. Paul MackerrasOct 10, 2008

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