* [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
@ 2007-09-18 7:26 Mike Hommey
2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hommey @ 2007-09-18 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: Junio C Hamano, Mike Hommey
The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, so
UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
not very appealing.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---
Documentation/git-lost-found.txt | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
index e48607f..82b0699 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
Author
------
-Written by Junio C Hamano 濱é ç´ <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation
--------------
--
1.5.3.1
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
2007-09-18 7:26 [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Mike Hommey
@ 2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-18 9:34 ` Mike Hommey
2007-09-20 9:08 ` Lukas Sandström
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2007-09-18 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Hommey; +Cc: git
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,
On which distro?
> so
> UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
> not very appealing.
Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with
Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2007-09-18 9:34 ` Mike Hommey
2007-09-20 9:08 ` Lukas Sandström
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hommey @ 2007-09-18 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>
> > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,
>
> On which distro?
Debian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen
(it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until
very recently)
> > so
> > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
> > not very appealing.
>
> Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with
> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
I'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out.
Mike
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-18 9:34 ` Mike Hommey
@ 2007-09-20 9:08 ` Lukas Sandström
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lukas Sandström @ 2007-09-20 9:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Git Mailing List, Junio C Hamano; +Cc: mh
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>> so
>> UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
>> not very appealing.
>
> Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with
> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
>
These days when we have delta reusing and repacking is quite cheap,
I'd say just drop pack-redundant and its man page completely.
Of course, some pople might still be using it, but I haven't
felt the need for it in over a year.
/Lukas Sandström
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2007-09-20 9:08 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2007-09-18 7:26 [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Mike Hommey
2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-18 9:34 ` Mike Hommey
2007-09-20 9:08 ` Lukas Sandström
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).