Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames

Linus Torvalds wrote:

Now, I believe patches can actually be that way - it's not at all 
impossible to have a diff where the _filename_ is utf-8, but the content 
of the patch itself is some byte-encoding like latin1. Or the other way 
around.

Or both.  Trivial example: a patch to change names in comments from ISO 
8859-1 to UTF-8.

	-hpa