Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > Just to confirm my missing knowledge here: > Does this mean, that git-gui and gitk can decode/reencode > the content of a file/blob, when the .gitattributes say so ? These programs, when told that a file is in an encoding, read bytes from that file and interpret that byte sequence in the given encoding, and blits the corresponding glyphs on the screen---giving UTF-8 out is not the primary feature of them, so I am not sure decode/reencode is a good term to use here.