Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Also "UTF16" or other spelling >>> the platform may support but this code fails to recognise will go >>> unchecked. >> >> That is true. However, I would assume all iconv implementations use the >> same encoding names for UTF encodings, no? That means UTF16 would never be >> valid. Would you agree? > > After seeing "UTF16" and others in "iconv -l | grep -i utf" output, > I am not sure what you mean by "Would you agree?" People can say in > their .gitattributes file that this path is in "UTF16" without dash > and that is what will be fed to this code, no? FWIW, "iconv -f utf8 -t utf16" seems not to complain, so I am reasonably sure that people expect downcased ones to work as well.
