Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > In which case yeah, I could see choosing an in-repo encoding to possibly > be useful (but it also seems like a feature that could easily be tacked > on later if somebody cares). Yes, I think we are on the same page---in-repo-encoding that is a natural counterpart to w-t-e attribute can be added later if/when somebody finds it useful, and it is perfectly OK to declare that we cater only to UTF-8 users until that happens.