Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header

lördag 13 januari 2007 02:43 skrev Junio C Hamano:

Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.

Wasn't there a repository option, "commitencoding"?  I can't see it being
used here. I.e., we should err out if the log message is not UTF-8 and the 
option is not set (giving a message telling the user to set it).  If it is 
set we should consider the repository encoding to be the one and if that too 
is wrong (only possible to detect for some encodings), just assume iso-8859-1 
as anything could in theory be iso-8859-1 encoded.  

-- robin