From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 06:08:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1
Message-ID: <xmqq7f9xswm7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160927055744.el2jbxzdqfhjl6qt@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I have to admit that I don't care too deeply about performance for
> somebody who wants to convert "latin1" to "ISO-8859-1". If one of your
> encodings is not UTF-8, you are probably Doing It Wrong. :)

Exactly.  Note that the "you" in the above are usually plural,
collectively referring to both the sender and the receiver.  I
usually am on the poor receiving end ;-)