Hi, On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Me, keyboard and Emacs screwed up and stored it in ISO-2022 > > instead of UTF-8. Sorry. > It's a pity, but too late to change.[1] > > What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on > its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset). We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710 Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8. Hth, Dscho