Re: RFC: Native clean/smudge filter for UTF-16 files

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

So anyway, that is an alternate strategy, but I think I like "canonical
in-repo text is utf-8" approach a lot more, since then git operations
work consistently. There are still a few rough edges (e.g., I'm not sure

Sounds like a good way forward.

if you could apply a utf-8 patch directly to a utf-16 working tree file.
Certainly not using "patch", but I'm not sure how well "git apply" would
handle that case either). But I think it would mostly Just Work as long
as people were willing to set their encoding attributes.

It should work (or fail) just like applying LF patch to CRLF working
tree, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Thanks.