Gerrit diff Configuration for UTF-16 encoded file.

[Roy Chan]

Hi,

we have some UTF-16 encoding TEXT file  (file extension dat) *.dat that would want to see the diff on gerrit.

From what i find on internet, gerrit doesn't support diff UTF-16 files. and git diff command will diff UTF-16 files by default as binary.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/777949/can-i-make-git-recognize-a-utf-16-file-as-text

i can configure git diff command work properly by

in my ~/.gitconfig file.

```

[diff "localizablestrings"]

textconv = "iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8"

```

and in my git project .gitattributes file

```

*.dat diff=localizablestrings

```

May i know if such workaround can be configured on the gerrit server and make it work?

Cheers,

Roy

[David Ostrovsky]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 08:07:48 UTC+1 schrieb Roy Chan:

Hi,

we have some UTF-16 encoding TEXT file  (file extension dat) *.dat that would want to see the diff on gerrit.

[...]

May i know if such workaround can be configured on the gerrit server and make it work?

This is Gerrit issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues.

This is your query: "utf-16".

This is the answer to all your questions: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1468

Status: New => it's open and nobody is working on it, in which case the status would be Started.

Priority: 3 => that basically means we do not care much, but check the wording of priority description: [1].

[1] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/issues.md#Priority_3