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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Print diffs of UTF-16 to console / patches to email as
 UTF-8...?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:18:51 -0500
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Hi,

Drew Northup wrote:

>         This is part of my ongoing work to treat UTF-16 as text (in
> other words, the crlf options will work and .gitattributes hacks won't
> be required to display diffs, etc).

What's wrong with .gitattributes for this use case?  I would think a
clean/smudge filter would produce very good behavior from most git
commands.

If speed is the issue, maybe a built-in clean/smudge filter would
address that?