Re: gitweb: charset problem

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: 2005-10-25 07:55:30
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:

> > But we also have another problem: Sometimes we have umlauts in the commit
> > messages.  Those are also displayed incorrectly. When I switch to
> > iso-8859-1 encoding in mozilla, the characters in the username and in the
> > commit message are ok.
> 
> I believe the Emperor Penguin decreed messages have to be ASCII, or else
> UTF-8. Please don't add to the mess by using non-portable encodings!

Should we possibly reject non-UTF-8 input to commits?

IIRC, we actually define that to be UTF-8, unlike most of the other stuff, 
for which we don't actually insist on a policy.

	-Daniel
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