Re: Script for handling UTF-16 files

From: Ken Ismert <kismert@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2013, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <62acca4c-9328-4c38-bf35-6db55d45c895@googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <5165B6AC.5090403@gmail.com>

Karsten,

There's also an 'encoding' attribute and a 'gui.encoding' setting which in

> theory should solve your issue (i.e. specify encoding of files for display 
> by GUI tools). I don't know if Git Extensions supports that, or whether its 
> supposed to work for binary files at all. 
>

I played around with this, and neither 'encoding' or 'gui.encoding' solves my problem in Get Extensions or Git Gui.

According to the man page, I would put this entry in my .gitattributes: *.txt encoding=utf-8

This sounds rather tautological -- "Why yes, I do want to display my UTF-16 file as text!"

More to the point, since Git *doesn't know* the original encoding of a 'non-standard' Unicode file, how can it possibly know how to convert it to UTF-8?

So, 'encoding' and 'gui.encoding' seem to be poorly conceived, and certainly aren't helpful for the Windows UTF-16 problem.

-Ken

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