convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'ls/checkout-encoding

UTF supports lossless conversion round tripping and conversions between
UTF and other encodings are mostly round trip safe as Unicode aims to be
a superset of all other character encodings. However, certain encodings
(e.g. SHIFT-JIS) are known to have round trip issues [1].

Add 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding', which contains a comma separated
list of encodings, to define for what encodings Git should check the
conversion round trip if they are used in the 'working-tree-encoding'
attribute.

Set SHIFT-JIS as default value for 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/170559/prb-conversion-problem-between-shift-jis-and-unicode

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/convert.h b/convert.h
index 1d9539ed0b..765abfbd60 100644
--- a/convert.h
+++ b/convert.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct delayed_checkout {
 };
 
 extern enum eol core_eol;
+extern char *check_roundtrip_encoding;
 extern const char *get_cached_convert_stats_ascii(const struct index_state *istate,
 						  const char *path);
 extern const char *get_wt_convert_stats_ascii(const char *path);