From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:47:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages
Message-ID: <7v7h3qz2yo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111027181303.GF1967@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.