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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Cc: larsxschneider@gmail•com, git@vger•kernel.org, luke@diamand•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:09:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8t7usmk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E4A965.8040305@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:22:13 +0200")

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web•de> writes:

> On 2015-08-31 19.40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> larsxschneider@gmail•com writes:
>
>>> +test_expect_success 'Create a repo containing cp1251 encoded paths' '
>>> +	cd "$cli" &&
>>> +
>>> +	FILENAME="$(echo "a-¤_o-¶_u-¼.txt" | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252)" &&
>>  ...
> Using file names and iconv like this may not be portable:
> - cp1252 may be called CP1252 (or may not be available)

"git grep 'cp[0-9]' t/" does tell us that we refrain from using them
and I am sure the portability worries is a big reason.  Thank you
for pointing it out.

> - reading from stdin is not necessarily supported by iconv

"git grep '| iconv' t/" tells me that this is irrelevant; we already
heavily depend on it.

> - creating files in CP1252 may not be supported under Mac OS
>    (Not sure about Windows)

The same as the first point, which is a good thing to worry about.

> One solution could be to use ISO-8859-1, convert into UTF-8,
> and "convert into UTF-8" one more time.

I do not quite get it; do you need to do anything more than just
replacing cp1252 with iso-8859-1 in the patch being discussed?

      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 15:40 [PATCH] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option larsxschneider
2015-08-31 15:40 ` larsxschneider
2015-08-31 17:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-31 19:22     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-08-31 20:09       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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