Utf8 fixes

[markeel]

This changes the encoding of any string from libgit2 to be treated as UTF-8. The only down side of this fix is if someone was already using something like ASCII-8BIT, but that seems less likely than someone using UTF-8 but with characters that are multi-byte.

• Production edit: This closes Cannot show Chinese correctly #150.

[markeel]

I submitted a pull request a year ago, and it still has to be reviewed. I basically forgot about it (and have been using my version of this plugin since then), How do we move this along?

[Calinou]

I submitted a pull request a year ago, and it still has to be reviewed. I basically forgot about it (and have been using my version of this plugin since then), How do we move this along?

Please rebase this against the latest master branch so this can be merged 🙂

See Pull request workflow for instructions.

[Calinou]

Out of curiosity, why is this change needed?

[markeel]

This was a year ago, I think adding that stopped git from telling me there were changes in the libgit2. When I rebase against the latest master, I'll see if it was really necessary or just an artifact of me trying to figure out the problem.

[Calinou]

• Superseded by Updates for issue #150 to use UTF8 instead of String when dealing with data from the git repository #229.