From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: lars.schneider@autodesk.com, git@vger.kernel.org, tboegi@web.de,
j6t@kdbg.org, sunshine@sunshineco.com, peff@peff.net,
ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/8] utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:07:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lls3irx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tb43jfe.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:53:25 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Also "UTF16" or other spelling
>>> the platform may support but this code fails to recognise will go
>>> unchecked.
>>
>> That is true. However, I would assume all iconv implementations use the
>> same encoding names for UTF encodings, no? That means UTF16 would never be
>> valid. Would you agree?
>
> After seeing "UTF16" and others in "iconv -l | grep -i utf" output,
> I am not sure what you mean by "Would you agree?" People can say in
> their .gitattributes file that this path is in "UTF16" without dash
> and that is what will be fed to this code, no?
FWIW, "iconv -f utf8 -t utf16" seems not to complain, so I am
reasonably sure that people expect downcased ones to work as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-04 20:14 [PATCH v9 0/8] convert: add support for different encodings lars.schneider
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower() lars.schneider
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper() lars.schneider
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM lars.schneider
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] utf8: add function to detect a missing " lars.schneider
2018-03-06 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-06 22:39 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-06 23:00 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-03-06 23:12 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-07 17:39 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute lars.schneider
2018-03-06 20:42 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-03-06 22:13 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 22:22 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings lars.schneider
2018-03-05 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-05 23:45 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 1:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-06 17:03 ` Lars Schneider
2018-03-06 20:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute lars.schneider
2018-03-04 20:14 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding' lars.schneider
2018-03-06 21:05 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] convert: add support for different encodings Eric Sunshine
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