From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator•liu.se>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:58:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ivo446n.fsf@morpheus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.63.0701131217410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Side note. The previous patch does not help if your commit were
>> made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
>> commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.
>
> Why not just use is_utf8() and warn, or error out, if the message is not
> UTF-8? (I tend towards the erroring out, since this _is_ a new feature,
> and gives undesired results with "old" commits.)
What do you mean? I have an old repository with latin1 commits without
any encoding markers. I want to be able to use format-patch from that
and at least get a From: line with something readable. You can't just
barf and say "This isn't UTF-8, go away".
--
David Kågedal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-15 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-12 13:06 [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header David Kågedal
2007-01-12 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13 11:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-13 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:58 ` David Kågedal [this message]
2007-01-16 11:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 12:43 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-13 12:23 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-13 17:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:54 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-13 11:02 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-14 0:42 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-14 19:25 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-13 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:57 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-15 16:53 ` David Kågedal
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