ng.  The way to say this is to
have i18n.commitencoding in <code>.git/config</code> file, like this:</p>
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<pre>[i18n]
        commitEncoding = ISO-8859-1</pre>
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<p>Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
of <code>i18n.commitEncoding</code> in its <code>encoding</code> header.  This is to
help other people who look at them later.  Lack of this header
implies that the commit log message is encoded in UT