Re: [PATCH v3] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option

> On 01 Sep 2015, at 01:13, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:
>> 
>>> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>>> 
>> 
>> Here is a space for you to describe what it does and why it is a
>> good idea to have it.
> How about this:
>
> Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating
> OS. Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Add an option to tell git-p4
> what encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used
> to transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows
> uses “cp1252” to encode path names.