Re: Use of new .gitattributes working-tree-encoding attribute across different platform types

> One thing I almost did in the example I gave above was to literally call
> the encoding name by a "real" one. I.e.:
>
>   echo '*.txt working-tree-encoding=iso-8859-1' >.gitattributes
>   git config encoding.iso-8859-1.replace latin1
>
> or something. But I wondered if it was a little crazy as a practice,
> since mapping "iso-8859-1" to "utf-8" is probably going to lead to
> headaches.
>
> But your example above of semantically equivalent variants with
> different spellings would be a good use of that trick.