Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > Of the three solutions, I think the relative merits are something like > this: > ... > 3. w-t-e (Lars's patch)
I thought Lars's w-t-e was about keeping the in-repo contents in UTF-8 and externalize in whatever encoding (e.g. UTF-16), so it won't help the issue hosting folks want to deal with, i.e. showing in-repo data that is stored in a strange binary-looking encoding in a more reasonable encodign while diffing, no? Usually we only work in-repo encoding when producing a diff and show the result in in-repo encoding, but I can imagine a new attribute, when set, we first convert in-repo to the specified encoding before passing the result to xdiff machinery. Then convert it back to in-repo encoding before showing the diff (or just show the result in that encoding xdiff machinery processed---I do not know which one should be the default).
