From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:02:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute
Message-ID: <xmqqzi6fykx1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171218101334.GA20685@tor.lan>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> Just to confirm my missing knowledge here:
> Does this mean, that git-gui and gitk can decode/reencode
> the content of a file/blob, when the .gitattributes say so ?

These programs, when told that a file is in an encoding, read bytes
from that file and interpret that byte sequence in the given
encoding, and blits the corresponding glyphs on the screen---giving
UTF-8 out is not the primary feature of them, so I am not sure
decode/reencode is a good term to use here.