Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > 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.
Yeah, I think the above looks quite sensible.
