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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> This makes empty bodies truly empty, and fills in the
> default UTF-8 encoding for an empty encoding.

I do not think the latter is correct.  Replacing with an empty
string might make sense, although I haven't thought through the
issues.