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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index b4cbb3830e..b95f99be6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ mind. an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to - have core.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + have i18n.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] commitencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + Commit objects created with the above setting record the value -of `core.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to +of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. @@ -41,15 +41,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the desired output encoding with - `core.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this: + ------------ -[core] +[i18n] logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1 ------------ + If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of -`core.commitencoding` is used instead. +`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead. Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit |