Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My position is that we should default to UTF-8 given its popularity (at > least in the Git world), but I'm wondering whether we should also add a > config variable to allow users to configure their encodings. > > If you don't mind, your thoughts on this would be appreciated :) > > [0] https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui/pull/21 Quite honestly, as long as we can keep the core part to stay "pathnames and refnames are just runs of bytes, terminated by NUL, and no other interpretation is necessary", I do not think I care too deeply if the UI layers (either GUI or Porcelain) become a bit more restrictive. But that is just my gut feeling.
