git and unicode

From: Gonzalo Garramuño <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar>
Date: Jan 8, 2008, 11:09 UTC
Message-ID: <47835A02.80404@advancedsl.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <C3A86A49.10AEF%jefferis@gmail.com>

Forking a little from the recent CR/LF thread, I was wondering how does git deal with unicode files?

Most scripting languages (ruby, python, etc) are now allowing their source code to be written in unicode (UTF-8, usually). Will git incorrectly categorize those source files as "binary"?

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