Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:00:58 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <[email-masked]> 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