docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding

The word "encoding" can mean a lot of things (e.g., base64 or
quoted-printable encoding in emails, HTML entities, URL encoding, and so
on). The documentation for i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding
uses the phrase "character encoding" to make this more clear.

Let's use that phrase in other places to make it clear what kind of
encoding we are talking about. This patch covers the gui.encoding
option, as well as the --encoding option for git-log, etc (in this
latter case, I word-smithed the sentence a little at the same time).
That, coupled with the mention of iconv in the --encoding description,
should make this more clear.

The other spot I looked at is the working-tree-encoding section of
gitattributes(5). But it gives specific examples of encodings that I
think make the meaning pretty clear already.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2021-08-27 14:32:06 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent fd680bc558
commit 1e93770888
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ gui.displayUntracked::
in the file list. The default is "true".
gui.encoding::
Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of
file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).

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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
used together.
--encoding=<encoding>::
The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
Commit objects record the character encoding used for the log message
in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this