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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
March 11, 2008 03:47
Subject:
Re: Switching to Git
Message ID:
51dd1af80803110347l2e8f6623w6e3a9d11d7bb0bd0@mail.gmail.com
On 3/6/08, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez
> <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please add your suggestions to that list.
>
> In p4 all the user names / changelogs were in ISO-8859-1. It would be
> better if these were converted to UTF-8 since a conversion is being
> done anyway. Pretty much everything uses UTF-8 now and I don't want to
> have to configure my git environment specifically so that my name in
> changelogs won't screw up commit messages for the perl project while
> using UTF-8 for everything else.
I discussed this with Sam on IRC and it's quite possible but it would
break everyone's current clones of the repository. Personally I think
it's worth it to impose a little annoyance now before it goes live
than having to deal with it for all eternity, and I thought I'd bump
this issue since the git repository is presumably going live soon.
Are we willing to switch changelogs to UTF-8 before the conversion?
(Tangent) I came across some Debian lint output [1] that lists perl as
not having a UTF-8 changelog file (probably being used as-is) which
is one example of this causing annoyances upstream.
1. http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags/debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
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