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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: specify charset for commits
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:31:53 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
> >      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
> >      set, or set to utf-8.
> 
> The problem is: you cannot easily recognize if it is UTF8 or not, 
> programatically. There is a good indicator _against_ UTF8, namely the 
> first byte can _only_ be 0xxxxxxx, 110xxxxx, 1110xxxx, 11110xxx. But there 
> is no _positive_ sign that it is UTF8. For example, many umlauts and other 
> special modifications to letters, stay in the range 0x7f-0xff.

Still... that would be a good enough thing to have in the majority of 
cases, wouldn't it?


Nicolas