Git v2.24.1 and others

With things like this, there usully comes a time when you can say that the problem is basically solved. It was not in 2002, but it pretty much is now. Just be glad that Unicode took upon itself the very ungrateful task of developing a universal standard for text encoding, and that you didn't have to do that yourself. It's now done. We can finally use it to clean up the royal mess of all the previous attempts.

It's like with date handling: do not *ever* write your own date handling library; now that even Java got a decent support for it in its standard library, you don't have to be stupid like this anymore ;) And one standard is enough. We've got it solved, let's move on already.