Re: [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute

Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] writes:

Just to confirm my missing knowledge here:
Does this mean, that git-gui and gitk can decode/reencode
the content of a file/blob, when the .gitattributes say so ?

These programs, when told that a file is in an encoding, read bytes
from that file and interpret that byte sequence in the given
encoding, and blits the corresponding glyphs on the screen---giving
UTF-8 out is not the primary feature of them, so I am not sure
decode/reencode is a good term to use here.