From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:40:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111027234429.GA28187@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > We do have people with utf-16 in their repositories on github. I > have no idea why they do such a thing, or what kinds of tricks they > do to make it usable (because without it, they just get "binary > files differ"). Hmm, you could ask them ... [or, I suppose more diplomatically, post a blog entry asking "Hey all you people who use github for utf-16 encoded files, ..."] -Miles -- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.