Our previous assumption that all paths in Windows are encoded in UTF-8
is rather weak, specially when considering that Git is
encoding-agnostic.

These set of functions allow the user to change the library's active
codepage globally, so it is possible to access paths and files on all
international versions of Windows.

Note that the default encoding here is UTF-8 because we assume that 99%
of all Git repositories will be in UTF-8.

Also, if you use non-ascii characters in paths, anywhere, please burn on
a fire.