Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

Robin Rosenberg:

Not sure what that is.

"Invariant" is defined in an old RFC as the common subset of several 
ASCII-like and ASCII-based encodings. This was back before the MIME days, 
IIANM.

I mean that in a local nordic, setting people can use 
iso-8859-1|15/windows-1252/UTF-8 for their needs be means of converting 
the characters as-needed without loss, with very few practial 
restrictions.

Indeed. The trick is to have the storage (in this case, Git and it's tree 
objects) storing the file name data in a commonly agreed-upon way. Then it 
is simple to convert at the end-points.

Just because I use UTF-8 doesn't mean I use start using more characters in 
practice.

Most people do not, no. But using a Unicode encoding means that they at 
least have the option. Sometimes, having to mangle stuff down to ASCII is a 
pain.

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