# [PATCH] Documentation/i18n.txt: it is i18n.commitencoding not core.commitencoding 1 messages from 2007-02-18 to 2007-02-18. Participants: Fredrik Kuivinen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6868 ## Fredrik Kuivinen, 2007-02-18 09:36 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/i18n.txt: it is i18n.commitencoding not core.commitencoding Message-ID: <20070218093651.10173.51237.stgit@c165> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070218093651.10173.51237.stgit%40c165 ``` Similarly for i18n.logoutputencoding. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen --- Documentation/i18n.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index b4cbb38..b95f99b 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ mind. an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to - have core.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + have i18n.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] commitencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + Commit objects created with the above setting record the value -of `core.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to +of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. @@ -41,15 +41,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the desired output encoding with - `core.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of -`core.commitencoding` is used instead. +`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead. Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit ```