# Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout 2 messages from 2021-04-06 to 2021-04-06. Participants: Andrey Bienkowski, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55441 ## Andrey Bienkowski, 2021-04-06 12:20 Subject: Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAAunPhfjUSO0Po4sO7Hwxjq7_p0ke7VOD%3DXRizG1Fqkzymcgmg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi. I want to parse the output of git diff --name-only and git diff --name-status, but the documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff does not say what encoding it is in. Is it always utf8 on all platforms? If not is there a flag to make it so? Once I get an answer to this question I'll submit a PR to add the missing documentation. -- Andrey Bienkowski ``` ## Jeff King, 2021-04-06 14:54 Subject: Re: Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/YGx2EMHnwXWbp4ET%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Andrey Bienkowski wrote: > Hi. I want to parse the output of git diff --name-only and git diff > --name-status, but the documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff > does not say what encoding it is in. Is it always utf8 on all > platforms? If not is there a flag to make it so? Once I get an answer > to this question I'll submit a PR to add the missing documentation. There's some discussion in Documentation/i18n.txt, which is included in various manpages (e.g., https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_discussion) but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in git-diff. The short answer is: mostly utf8, but historically on platforms that don't care (like Linux) you could get away with other encodings. -Peff ```