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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:

> What disturbes me is the complexity that the approach of storing multiple 
> encodings in the same repository results in.

We are not encouraging mixed encodings, mind you.

Even though we check and warn comits that do not have a valid
UTF-8 string, the users can make mistakes and people need be
able to look at them later.  That is what we are solving.  

At the same time we do NOT force inconvenience on projects that
want to use legacy encoding for whatever reason.  The world is
not UTF-8 only, and encoding to UTF-8 is non-reversible a times
(positive return value from iconv(3)).  Always re-coding to
UTF-8 will NOT be accepted to git for now.  We can revisit this
perhaps in 5 years.