Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

On Okt 15 2017, "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joris Valette
>> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:34 AM
>> To: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does
>> 
>> The pager 'less' escapes some characters when calling 'git diff'. This
>> is what I might get:
>> 
>> $ git diff --cached
>> diff --git a/some_file b/some_file
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..357323f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/some_file
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +<U+FEFF>Hello
>> \ No newline at end of file
>> 
>> This example is a simple file encoded in UTF-8 *with BOM*.
>> On the other hand, the built-in git output shows this:
>> 
>> $ git --no-pager diff --cached
>> diff --git a/some_file b/some_file
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..357323f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/some_file
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +?Hello
>> \ No newline at end of file
>
> It is your terminal, not git's fault that you get a ? rendered.

It's your MUA's fault that you get a ?, the mail didn't contain any.

Andreas.

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