That actually didn't work not too long ago. I don't remember if it was git or less, but "unicode" characters it would end up getting reified as, e.g., "<U+1234>

That actually didn't work not too long ago. I don't remember if it was git or less, but "unicode" characters it would end up getting reified as, e.g., "<U+1234>", as I recall. Thankfully it got fixed at some point.