The use of this statement is generally discouraged, and is too intrusive
for us: it forces the HTTP requests made by the API to contain only valid
UTF-8 characters. This would break the upload of binary files.
---
contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
index a8e6287..ed06ff7 100755
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
@@ -36,11 +36,10 @@
use strict;
use MediaWiki::API;
use DateTime::Format::ISO8601;
-use encoding 'utf8';
-# use encoding 'utf8' doesn't change STDERROR
-# but we're going to output UTF-8 filenames to STDERR
+# By default, use UTF-8 to communicate with Git and the user
binmode STDERR, ":utf8";
+binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
use URI::Escape;
use IPC::Open2;
--
1.7.11.5.g0c7e058.dirty