Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Why not just use is_utf8() and warn, or error out, if the message is not 
UTF-8? (I tend towards the erroring out, since this _is_ a new feature, 
and gives undesired results with "old" commits.)

That sounds sensible.