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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.

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.)

What do you mean? I have an old repository with latin1 commits without
any encoding markers.  I want to be able to use format-patch from that
and at least get a From: line with something readable.  You can't just
barf and say "This isn't UTF-8, go away".

-- 
David Kågedal