On February 27, 2019 11:11, Michal Suchánek wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:54:23 -0500 > "Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> wrote: > > > On February 27, 2019 9:09, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:04:08 -0500 > > > "Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Git Team, > > > > > > > > I have to admit being perplexed by this one. I have been asked to > > > > support the Shift-JIS character set in file contents, comments, > > > > and logs, for a partner of mine. I know there are a few ways to do > > > > this, but I'm looking for the official non-hacky way to do this. > > > > This is CLI only, and our pager, less, does not support > > > > multi-byte, so I'm looking > > for > > > options there also. > > > > > > SJIS is about as much multibyte as UTF-8. > > > > > > Why do you think less does not support it? > > > > > > Last time I looked there was SJIS locale for libc so it is only > > > matter of generating the correct locales and using them. Of course, > > > if you are > > running > > > in UTF-8 SJIS will look like garbage. > > > > Sadly, I did not personally build less on this platform, and the libc > > used did not include UTF-16, on the platform vendor supplied less. cat > > works fine, but the usual LESSCHARSET=utf-16 is unsupported, so I am > > looking for an alternative. THAT is why I think less does not support > > it. Sorry, I should have made that more clear. > > > > cat works fine, so if I set GIT_PAGER=cat, I can at least see the > > diffs cleanly in SJIS, but this partner wants a pager that is usable. > > > > So you want to use SJIS because UTF-16 is not supported. So what is the > problem with SJIS (or UTF-8 for that matter)?
The partner I am working with is using multi-byte SJIS, which is also not supported by this incarnation of less. As a result, UTF-8 does not work either in this situation. The content is definitely multi-byte. I know this was fixed in RedHat's Less in 2016, but did not make this platform.
