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Re: [PATCH 2/2] utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2016, 06:08 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I have to admit that I don't care too deeply about performance for
> somebody who wants to convert "latin1" to "ISO-8859-1". If one of your
> encodings is not UTF-8, you are probably Doing It Wrong. :)

Exactly. Note that the "you" in the above are usually plural, collectively referring to both the sender and the receiver. I usually am on the poor receiving end ;-)

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Message 7 of 7 in “Locally alias "latin-1" to "ISO-8859-1"”
  1. 0/2 Locally alias "latin-1" to "ISO-8859-1"Junio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  2. 1/2 utf8: refactor code to decide fallback encodingJunio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  3. Jeff KingSep 27, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016
  5. 2/2 utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1Junio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2016
  6. Jeff KingSep 27, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016

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