[issue194] Decoding output of diff and cat command

[Shun-ichi Goto]

New submission from Shun-ichi Goto <shunichi.goto at gmail.com>:

I think the output of diff and cat command is better to be decoded
by filter mechanism because it includes file contents.
For example, I want to canonicalize into one character encoding in repository
from various japanese character sets (shift_jis, euc-jp, iso-2022-jp)
used in windows(shift_jis), unix(euc-jp) and others(iso-2022-jp).
In this case, filter works fine on checkout and commit,
but diff and cat outputs raw (encoded) text.
I feel it is natural they outputs decoded text.

Attached a sample patch for this.

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files: decoding-diff-and-cat.patch
messages: 893
nosy: gotoh
priority: wish
status: unread
title: Decoding output of diff and cat command

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