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<h3 id="_viewing_files_in_gui_tools">Viewing files in GUI tools</h3>
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<h4 id="__code_encoding_code"><code>encoding</code></h4>
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<p>The value of this attribute specifies the character encoding that should
be used by GUI tools (e.g. linkgit:gitk[1] and linkgit:git-gui[1]) to
display the contents of the relevant file. Note that due to performance
considerations linkgit:gitk[1] does not use this attribute unless you
manually enab