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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:05:53 -0500
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

Including the Git list...

> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:17:30PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 
>  > commit 24ebead82bbf9785909d4cf205e2df5e9ff7da32
>  > tree 921f686860e918a01c3d3fb6cd106ba82bf4ace6
>  > parent 264166e604a7e14c278e31cadd1afb06a7d51a11
>  > author Rafa³ Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl> 1167691774 +0100
>  > committer Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 1167799119 -0500
>  > 
>  > and looking at that "author" closer with od:
>  > 
>  > 0000140 74 68 6f 72 20 52 61 66 61 b3 20 42 69 6c 73 6b
>  >           t   h   o   r       R   a   f   a   ³       B   i   l   s   k
>  > 
>  > clearly not UTF-8.  I doubt whether any of the commits I do on my
>  > en_GB ISO-8859-1 systems end up being UTF-8 encoded.
> 
> This has been bugging me for a while.
> Viewing the mail I applied in mutt shows his name correctly as Rafał
> Applying it with git-applymbox and viewing the log on master.kernel.org
> with git log shows Rafa<B3>   And then later when put into email
> it turns into Rafa³
> 
>  > But the point is there is charset damage which has happened _long_ before
>  > Linus' action.  There is no character set defined for the contents of git
>  > repositories, and as such the output of the git tools can not be
>  > interpreted as any one single character set.
> 
> If there's something I should be doing when I commit that I'm not,
> I'll be happy to change my scripts.  My $LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8
> which should DTRT to the best of my knowledge, but clearly, that isn't
> the case.

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