Support unicode files diff

[shuax]

I have some files that are utf16-le with bom encoded.
Now displayed as binary file.

[BenjaminSchaaf]

Git does not support diffing utf-16 encoded files in it's index. You can however use the working-tree-encoding git attribute to make git convert to utf-8 for storage and back to your desired utf-16 encoding on disk. Sublime Merge doesn't have any special settings for encoding, we simply rely on settings/attributes from git.

[shuax]

Thanks for the answer

[zePanzerfaust]

So are you using the actual file and git output like this?

diff --git a/file b/file
index 61ddcd6..80eef3e 160000
--- a/file
+++ b/file
@@ -1 +1 @@

Because I thought all these external diff tools use two temporary files and compare them.
If that's the case there will never be support I guess? Will there be support for external diff tools soon or in the near future? (I'm not interested in all these workarounds in the forum.)

I frequently have to diff UTF16-LE files and it would be nice to have a simple menu option that calls git difftool ... with the correct parameters or something similar. The same applies for a merge. Tracked in #58.