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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use UTF-8 encoding
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:00:58 -0700
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 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