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diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index 625d3154ea..e9a1d5d25a 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic. +At the core level, Git is character encoding agnostic. - The pathnames recorded in the index and in the tree objects are treated as uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes. What readdir(2) returns are what are recorded and compared - with the data git keeps track of, which in turn are expected + with the data Git keeps track of, which in turn are expected to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such thing as pathname encoding translation. @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic. bytes. Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded -in UTF-8, both the core and git Porcelain are designed not to +in UTF-8, both the core and Git Porcelain are designed not to force UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular -project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git +project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, Git does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. |