# Re: Feature request: number of added and deleted lines for UTF-16 files 2 messages from 2020-03-08 to 2020-03-09. Participants: Александр Третьяк, Torsten Bögershausen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52958 ## Александр Третьяк, 2020-03-08 21:37 Subject: Re: Feature request: number of added and deleted lines for UTF-16 files Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACDhn-R6ZKvgMxJdxP7NpsAViY97PfC7aM8xTJgaQK_GLJRyvQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Some source files in MSVC (e.g. resource.h) are encoded in UTF-16 (LE) with Byte Order Mark (i.e. signature: FF FE for little-endian and FE FF for big-endian), and `git diff --numstat` shows `-` in place of number of added/removed lines, e.g.: - - clientapp/resource.h Can you auto detect UTF-16 by reading first 2 bytes of the file, and correctly show number of lines added/removed? ``` ## Torsten Bögershausen, 2020-03-09 18:35 Subject: Re: Feature request: number of added and deleted lines for UTF-16 files Message-ID: <20200309183532.lsh74dxjlxdqhdox@tb-raspi4> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200309183532.lsh74dxjlxdqhdox%40tb-raspi4 In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 07:37:56AM +1000, Александр Третьяк wrote: > Some source files in MSVC (e.g. resource.h) are encoded in UTF-16 (LE) > with Byte Order Mark (i.e. signature: FF FE for little-endian and FE > FF for big-endian), and `git diff --numstat` shows `-` in place of > number of added/removed lines, e.g.: > - - clientapp/resource.h > > Can you auto detect UTF-16 by reading first 2 bytes of the file, and > correctly show number of lines added/removed? There is an attribute "working-tree-encoding" that can be used to have the files in "UTF-16LE-BOM" (in your case) in your working tree and in UTF-8 inside the repo. This will allow commands like "git diff" to display added/deleted lines in UTF-8. More details may be found here: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes I hope that helps ```