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by WorldMaker 2354 days ago
Sure, but that's also not the only resulting option; instead of erroring you could also do something nice like help those users migrate to cleaner Unicode encodings of their filenames by asking them to correct mistakes or provide information about the original encoding. It takes more code to do that than just throwing an error, of course, but who knows how many users that might help that don't even realize why their repositories don't work correctly on, say, Windows.