specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo)

Hello Junio,

Junio C Hamano wrote:

It's a pity, but too late to change.[1]

What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset). Maybe it makes sense to add another header to commit objects (e.g. "charset UTF-8") if something in the commit object is non-ASCII?

In my eyes it would make sense to even force UTF-8 for commit logs (and author, committer). The downside is that it becomes impossible to store arbitrary byte sequences in commit objects. (IMHO not a real limitation.)

Best regards Uwe

[1] actually I think it's worse, because my iconv (from Debian's libc6
    version 2.3.6.ds1-8) was unable to convert it correctly to utf-8 for
    any encoding that starts with ISO-2022.