From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:00:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding
Message-ID: <4344AF8A.1040504@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvf0b9t0d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>gitk should try to use UTF-8 encoding for system operations, such as
>>reading and writing files and git output.
> 
> I agree about commit messages, but I am not so sure about the
> file contents (aka user data).  Is it possible to control them
> separately?
> 

git needs to be able to treat user data as arbitrary binary blobs. 
However, if interpreting as text, UTF-8 is the right default, at least.

	-hpa