On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 03:40:55PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > If that is it, then I believe git should "do the right thing" when > generating patches. I've noticed that it progressively sets the encoding > based on the minimum required to encode the characters in the patch.
The last line of your diffoscope shows that Pjotr's patch was encoded in iso-8559-1, while all the scheme files in guix are in utf-8. It seems quite clear to me that this is the reason for our problems. And apparently, the git version plays a role in this. Andreas