utf8: refactor code to decide fallback encoding

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 variants of "UTF-8" (e.g. "utf8") into
the most official spelling and use that as a fallback.

We do the same thing for input and output encoding.  Introduce a
helper function to do just one side and call that twice.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index 00e10c8..550e785 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -489,6 +489,21 @@ char *reencode_string_iconv(const char *in, size_t insz, iconv_t conv, int *outs
 	return out;
 }
 
+static const char *fallback_encoding(const char *name)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Some platforms do not have the variously spelled variants of
+	 * UTF-8, so let's fall back to trying the most official
+	 * spelling. We do so only as a fallback in case the platform
+	 * does understand the user's spelling, but not our official
+	 * one.
+	 */
+	if (is_encoding_utf8(name))
+		return "UTF-8";
+
+	return name;
+}
+
 char *reencode_string_len(const char *in, int insz,
 			  const char *out_encoding, const char *in_encoding,
 			  int *outsz)
@@ -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 variously spelled variants of
-		 * UTF-8, so let's fall back to trying the most official
-		 * spelling. We do so only as a fallback in case the platform
-		 * does understand the user's spelling, but not our official
-		 * one.
-		 */
-		if (is_encoding_utf8(in_encoding))
-			in_encoding = "UTF-8";
-		if (is_encoding_utf8(out_encoding))
-			out_encoding = "UTF-8";
+		in_encoding = fallback_encoding(in_encoding);
+		out_encoding = fallback_encoding(out_encoding);
+
 		conv = iconv_open(out_encoding, in_encoding);
 		if (conv == (iconv_t) -1)
 			return NULL;