From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:15:35 -0700 Message-ID: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 18 11:16:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXZBZ-0008CL-A5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:16:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752916AbXIRJPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:15:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753854AbXIRJPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:15:48 -0400 Received: from rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.210.124.37]:51452 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752916AbXIRJPr (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:15:47 -0400 Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8611373EC; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:15:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:26:19 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mike Hommey 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.