Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 00:32:32 +0100: > Some other arguments, including '--native-eol', are not converted > before testing for valid values, and the valid values are always > ASCII. This is OK, if we assume an ASCII subset. That's probably > safe, as [1] indicates that all common encodings except EBCDIC have an > ASCII subset. On the other hand, it does no harm to convert first, > and doing so is more consistent with how we handle other options.
If we decide not to convert, a comment documenting the decision might be useful.
