RE: Support for EBCDIC

> -Original Message- > From: Jeff King > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 13:34 > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:39:12PM -0700, Scott McKellar wrote: > > > Is Git supposed to be usable in an environment where the > execution character set is EBCDIC? > > Not really. If the core uses specific

Re: Support for EBCDIC

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:39:12PM -0700, Scott McKellar wrote: > Is Git supposed to be usable in an environment where the execution character > set is EBCDIC? Not really. In addition to the cases you found (and I would be surprised if there are not more, such as our reimplementation of ctype.h

Support for EBCDIC

Is Git supposed to be usable in an environment where the execution character set is EBCDIC? I ask because, in browsing the source code (version 2.0.0), I stumbled across three functions that won't work as presumably intended in an EBCDIC environment (strihash(), memihash(), and git_user_age