Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
> >> made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
> >> commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.
> >
> > Why not just use is_utf8() and warn, or error out, if the message is not 
> > UTF-8? (I tend towards the erroring out, since this _is_ a new feature, 
> > and gives undesired results with "old" commits.)
> 
> What do you mean? I have an old repository with latin1 commits without
> any encoding markers.  I want to be able to use format-patch from that
> and at least get a From: line with something readable.  You can't just
> barf and say "This isn't UTF-8, go away".