Re: [PATCH] builtin-blame.c: Use utf8_strwidth for author's names

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:22:07PM -0500, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:

I don't believe there are any encoding conversions performed up to that  
point. IIRC git doesn't require any encoding but encourages UTF-8; if it's 
something obscure, I have no way of knowing how wide in screen columns the 
author field is because I likely don't have a library for it in git at  
all. I do have a utf8.c, though.

Don't we pull the author from the commit message after it has been
converted using reencode_commit_message (see get_commit_info)? That
should be respecting the log output encoding.

It looks like we just throw away the information on what we encoded _to_
(i.e., the second parameter of reencode_commit_message).  Probably we
need to remember that and use a generic "what is the width of this
string in this encoding" function.

-Peff