Robin Rosenberg:
Not sure what that is.
"Invariant" is defined in an old RFC as the common subset of several ASCII-like and ASCII-based encodings. This was back before the MIME days, IIANM.
I mean that in a local nordic, setting people can use iso-8859-1|15/windows-1252/UTF-8 for their needs be means of converting the characters as-needed without loss, with very few practial restrictions.
Indeed. The trick is to have the storage (in this case, Git and it's tree objects) storing the file name data in a commonly agreed-upon way. Then it is simple to convert at the end-points.
Just because I use UTF-8 doesn't mean I use start using more characters in practice.
Most people do not, no. But using a Unicode encoding means that they at least have the option. Sometimes, having to mangle stuff down to ASCII is a pain.
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