GitLab does not show diffs for utf-16 encoded text files
Summary
This is a follow up to #10745 (closed)
I created a sample project on gitlab.com that demonstrates this issue, see https://gitlab.com/j-steinblock/utf16-test and added a simple utf-16 file with the content
[List description]
[Description]
Text=Something else
FileVersion=10
RootTable=MyTable
Units=SCM-Units
Metric=3
The file starts with FF FE 5B 00
(Hex Code)
Preview for this file is not possible, see: https://gitlab.com/j-steinblock/utf16-test/blob/master/test.txt (Edit link is missing as well)
A merge request just shows no preview for this file type
, see: j-steinblock/utf16-test!1 (diffs)
Same for compare, see: j-steinblock/utf16-test@master...test