Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:47:27AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > I'm tempted to detect the UTF-{16,32}{LE,BE} by their BOM, reencode them
>> > to utf8, and then display them in utf8. Is that too gross for us to
>> > consider?
>>
>> I tend to think so; it is entirely a different matter if the user
>> instructed us to clean/smudge UTF-16 payload into/outof UTF-8.
>
> Minor nit, but this is just for diff, so it is not about clean/smudge
> but rather about doing something like textconv.
I can understand if some tools in the Windows land prefer to work with
these encodings, so clean/smudge to have the checkout in these encodings
would be a reasonable thing not just diff but things like grep. On the
other hand, I do doubt the sanity of these people if they want to have
in-repository representation also in these encodings.
So I do not think "it is just for diff" is any improvement.
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