# Re: GIT character codecs

1 messages from 2005-11-13 to 2005-11-13. Participants: Marco Costalba.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2488

## Marco Costalba, 2005-11-13 20:52

Subject: Re: GIT character codecs
Message-ID: <20051113205241.70221.qmail@web26301.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051113205241.70221.qmail%40web26301.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

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Linus Torvalds wrote:

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>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Marco Costalba wrote:
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>>If encoding is a per-blob _and_ per-log message property a real solution, although cumbersone,
>>could be that git stores encoding togheter with the blob and the commits.
>
>
>We'd be much better off with just saying "we encourage people to use 
>utf-8, but if you don't, just set your locale to make things show up 
>properly".
>
>utf-8 is clearly the future, and if we make git internally aware of 
>locales, that's just going to complicate things. And usually for no good 
>reason, since users don't really care that much.
>

Yes, I agree with you and Junio, a workaround like let the user to choose the code page 
in the viewer is more then enough.

And also in this case, a choice between the local codec and utf-8 should take almost 
all cases.

Because of this, I added a text codec selector in qgit, reachable from settings menu.

There is a new release, qgit-0.97.2, with this new feature and some good
annotate fixes.

For the people interested the page with all the links is:
 http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/

  Marco

P.S: Now I can finally see Junio japanese name ;-)



	
		
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