does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in
mind.
-. `git-commit-tree` (hence, `git-commit` which uses it) issues
+. 'git-commit' and 'git-commit-tree' issues
a warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your
project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to
help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
-. `git-log`, `git-show` and friends looks at the `encoding`
+. 'git-log', 'git-show' and friends looks at the `encoding`
header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log
message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can
specify the desired output encoding with