Re: Git and --signoff, UTF-8

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

On 4/4/09, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
[...]
> git seems to consider all commit metadata as UTF-8. See the discussion
>  at the end of
>  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-commit.html
>
>  I think it's time to consider UTF-8 to be the default text encoding on
>  our platform.

Seconded. Having committer names being spelled correctly should be a
no-brainer these days. After all, we did already require the old
ChangeLogs to be UTF-8 encoded, so no point in going for anything
less.


Christian