Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) And it lacks a number of the (admittedly rarer)
European accented characters anyway.
European accented characters anyway.
So git basically first does a conversion according to the stated encoding, but after that conversion it will then do another pass to actually verify that the end result is valid utf-8, and if not, do the (trivial) latin1 -> So it's not _just_ about "common error in western emails", it's also simply that Latin1 really is special in the Unicode domain.
Unicode domain.
No other character set has that trivial conversion into utf-8.
European accented characters anyway.
So git basically first does a conversion according to the stated encoding, but after that conversion it will then do another pass to actually verify that the end result is valid utf-8, and if not, do the (trivial) latin1 -> So it's not _just_ about "common error in western emails", it's also simply that Latin1 really is special in the Unicode domain.
Unicode domain.
No other character set has that trivial conversion into utf-8.