Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> writes: >> One thing I find more problematic is that the above places *too* >> much stress on the UTF-8 centric worldview. It is perfectly valid >> to store your text contents encoded in ShiftJIS and check them out >> as-is, with or without this patch. It is grossly misleading to say >> that older versions of Git will check them out in UTF-8. "will >> checkout these files as-is without encoding conversion" is a better >> way to say it, probably. > > True. But that's not what I wanted to say in the "pitfalls" section. > If my Git client supports w-t-e and I add the ShiftJIS encoded > file "foo.bar" to my repository, then Git will store the file as > UTF-8 _internally_. That means if you clone my repository and your > Git client does _not_ support w-t-e, then you will see "foo.bar" as > UTF-8 encoded.
What you wrote implies *more* than that, which is what I had trouble with. If you say "what you have is checked out as-is", then it is still clear that those who use w-t-e to convert non UTF-8 into UTF-8 when checking in will get UTF-8 out when they use an older version of Git. If you say "what you have will be checked out in UTF-8", it makes it sound as if pre w-t-e Git will somehow reject non UTF-8 in-tree contents, or magically convert anything to UTF-8 while checking out, which is *not* what you want to imply. >> Also notice that even in the world with w-t-e, such a project won't >> benefit from w-t-e at all. After all, they have been happy using >> ShiftJIS in repository and using the same encoding on the working >> tree, and because w-t-e assumes that everybody should be using UTF-8 >> internally, such a project cannot take advantage of the new >> mechanism. > > Agreed. However, people using ShiftJIS are not my target audience. Be aware that you are writing *not* *solely* for your target audience. You write document for everybody, and make sure the description of a feature makes it clear who the feature primarily targets and how using (or not using) the feature affects users.
