Re: Stupid quoting...

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] writes:

I can't talk about "most" here, only local conditions, i.e. northern Europe 
where both the legacy ISO encodings are very common with a steady increase in 
UTF-8 usage, in the Linux community. People using OSS in windows almost 
exclusively get the windows-1252 (for most practical purposes the same as 
ISO-8859-1).

Even a *very* small set of random people you will wind up with people having 
different locales.

More problematic is the case where pathnames and contents are in
different encodings, even for the same language.

For example, my mbox files that store messages I receive from
people in Japan have contents in ISO-2022 as that is the
longstanding standard encoding used for e-mail over there, but
the pathname encoding used by the system I have that mbox file
on is EUC-JP.

If I were to create a patch between two versions of such a file,
the diff header would show the pathname encoded in one, and the
changed contents would ben shown in another.  As long as you
treat "git diff" output as binary blob, that would work just
fine, but when you have to transmit such a diff in e-mail as an
in-line patch, you would have troubles.