Re: --encoding global default

Greg Hudson wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:21, Karl Fogel wrote:
>[About the command-line option for the log message encoding]
>
>
>>Without that option, I would be unable to commit a log message
>>containing, say, Brane's name. (His family name can't be encoded
>>properly in Latin-1, iirc.) I'm surely not the only person in that
>>boat.
>>
>>
>
>Do you not have the necessary tools to use a UTF-8 locale?
>
>Would it not work to set LC_CTYPE to the desired locale when
>committing? (As long as all your filenames are ASCII, I don't see a
>problem.)
>
>
Only on Unix. There are Win^H^H^Hsystems out there where you can't
change the locale on a per-process basis.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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