[Bug-tar] UTF-8 versus other encodings in source files?

[Paul Eggert]

Some source files in the GNU tar project use UTF-8; others use
Latin-1; still others use UTF-8 in some places and Latin-1 in others
(which is quite awkward).

Would anyone object if I changed the source files to use UTF-8
uniformly?  It seems to be a better long-term choice than Latin-1.
The main technical objection I know of against UTF-8 is that older
Emacs versions can't handle it well, but this is a relatively minor
problem these days.