Jeff King writes:
> But once we introduce other fallbacks, then "utf8 -> latin1" may become
> "UTF-8 -> iso8859-1". A system that knows only "utf8" and "iso8859-1"
> _could_ work if we turned the knobs individually, but won't if we turn
> them both at once. Worse, a system that
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 06:22:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> @@ -501,17 +516,9 @@ char *reencode_string_len(const char *in, int insz,
>
> conv = iconv_open(out_encoding, in_encoding);
> if (conv == (iconv_t) -1) {
> - /*
> - * Some platforms do not have
The codepath we use to call iconv_open() has a provision to use a
fallback encoding when it fails, hoping that "UTF-8" being spelled
differently could be the reason why the library function did not
like the encoding names we gave it. Essentially, we turn what we
have observed to be used as
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