From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:19:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Stupid quoting...
Message-ID: <20070618161933.GC4662@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <86ir9l1ylc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:00:31AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> > 7-bit email.
> 
> I think it can be reasonably safely assumed that people using 8-bit
> characters in file names will not refrain from using them in the files

Not to mention the commit messages.

But more importantly, diffs aren't necessarily going through mail. When
I run 'git-show', this isn't useful to me:

diff --git "a/ni\303\261o" "b/ni\303\261o"

I can only imagine how git-show might look to somebody using all-utf8
filenames (such as Japanese).

-Peff