Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

> On Okt 15 2017, "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us> wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joris Valette
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:34 AM
>>> To: git@vger.kernel.org
>>> Subject: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does
>>>
>>> The pager 'less' escapes some characters when calling 'git diff'. This
>>> is what I might get:
>>>
>>> $ git diff --cached
>>> diff --git a/some_file b/some_file
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..357323f
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/some_file
>>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>> +<U+FEFF>Hello
>>> \ No newline at end of file
>>>
>>> This example is a simple file encoded in UTF-8 *with BOM*.
>>> On the other hand, the built-in git output shows this:
>>>
>>> $ git --no-pager diff --cached
>>> diff --git a/some_file b/some_file
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..357323f
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/some_file
>>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>> +?Hello
>>> \ No newline at end of file
>>
>> It is your terminal, not git's fault that you get a ? rendered.
>
> It's your MUA's fault that you get a ?, the mail didn't contain any.