We used to fall back on the ASCII encoding if UTF-8 did not work out. However,
this causes its own problems; ASCII is only valid for the lower 7 bytes. We
solve this by using Latin-1, which should have a valid character for every
byte sequence
If a commit had invalid UTF-8 characters in them -- like one in git.git for
example -- then the revparsing would stop halfway through. This patch first
tries UTF-8 enconding, and if that fails, falls back to ASCII encoding.
Pieter de Bie