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diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index 1e188e6e74..c673966331 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic. to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such thing as pathname encoding translation. - - The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequence + - The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core level. - - The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequence of non-NUL + - The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes. Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. -. `git-commit-tree` (hence, `git-commit` which uses it) issues +. 'git-commit' and 'git-commit-tree' issues a 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 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ 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. -. `git-log`, `git-show` and friends looks at the `encoding` +. 'git-log', 'git-show' and friends looks at the `encoding` 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 |