diff --git a/src/buf_text.c b/src/buf_text.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3c5024e6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/buf_text.c
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 the libgit2 contributors
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#include "buf_text.h"
+
+int git_buf_text_puts_escaped(
+	git_buf *buf,
+	const char *string,
+	const char *esc_chars,
+	const char *esc_with)
+{
+	const char *scan;
+	size_t total = 0, esc_len = strlen(esc_with), count;
+
+	if (!string)
+		return 0;
+
+	for (scan = string; *scan; ) {
+		/* count run of non-escaped characters */
+		count = strcspn(scan, esc_chars);
+		total += count;
+		scan += count;
+		/* count run of escaped characters */
+		count = strspn(scan, esc_chars);
+		total += count * (esc_len + 1);
+		scan += count;
+	}
+
+	if (git_buf_grow(buf, buf->size + total + 1) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	for (scan = string; *scan; ) {
+		count = strcspn(scan, esc_chars);
+
+		memmove(buf->ptr + buf->size, scan, count);
+		scan += count;
+		buf->size += count;
+
+		for (count = strspn(scan, esc_chars); count > 0; --count) {
+			/* copy escape sequence */
+			memmove(buf->ptr + buf->size, esc_with, esc_len);
+			buf->size += esc_len;
+			/* copy character to be escaped */
+			buf->ptr[buf->size] = *scan;
+			buf->size++;
+			scan++;
+		}
+	}
+
+	buf->ptr[buf->size] = '\0';
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void git_buf_text_unescape(git_buf *buf)
+{
+	buf->size = git__unescape(buf->ptr);
+}
+
+int git_buf_text_common_prefix(git_buf *buf, const git_strarray *strings)
+{
+	size_t i;
+	const char *str, *pfx;
+
+	git_buf_clear(buf);
+
+	if (!strings || !strings->count)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* initialize common prefix to first string */
+	if (git_buf_sets(buf, strings->strings[0]) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	/* go through the rest of the strings, truncating to shared prefix */
+	for (i = 1; i < strings->count; ++i) {
+
+		for (str = strings->strings[i], pfx = buf->ptr;
+			 *str && *str == *pfx; str++, pfx++)
+			/* scanning */;
+
+		git_buf_truncate(buf, pfx - buf->ptr);
+
+		if (!buf->size)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+bool git_buf_text_is_binary(const git_buf *buf)
+{
+	const char *scan = buf->ptr, *end = buf->ptr + buf->size;
+	int printable = 0, nonprintable = 0;
+
+	while (scan < end) {
+		unsigned char c = *scan++;
+
+		if (c > 0x1F && c < 0x7F)
+			printable++;
+		else if (c == '\0')
+			return true;
+		else if (!git__isspace(c))
+			nonprintable++;
+	}
+
+	return ((printable >> 7) < nonprintable);
+}
+
+int git_buf_text_detect_bom(git_bom_t *bom, const git_buf *buf, size_t offset)
+{
+	const char *ptr;
+	size_t len;
+
+	/* need at least 2 bytes after offset to look for any BOM */
+	if (buf->size < offset + 2)
+		return 0;
+
+	ptr = buf->ptr + offset;
+	len = buf->size - offset;
+
+	switch (*ptr++) {
+	case 0:
+		if (len >= 4 && ptr[0] == 0 && ptr[1] == '\xFE' && ptr[2] == '\xFF') {
+			*bom = GIT_BOM_UTF32_BE;
+			return 4;
+		}
+		break;
+	case '\xEF':
+		if (len >= 3 && ptr[0] == '\xBB' && ptr[1] == '\xBF') {
+			*bom = GIT_BOM_UTF8;
+			return 3;
+		}
+		break;
+	case '\xFE':
+		if (*ptr == '\xFF') {
+			*bom = GIT_BOM_UTF16_BE;
+			return 2;
+		}
+		break;
+	case '\xFF':
+		if (*ptr != '\xFE')
+			break;
+		if (len >= 4 && ptr[1] == 0 && ptr[2] == 0) {
+			*bom = GIT_BOM_UTF32_LE;
+			return 4;
+		} else {
+			*bom = GIT_BOM_UTF16_LE;
+			return 2;
+		}
+		break;
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+bool git_buf_text_gather_stats(
+	git_buf_text_stats *stats, const git_buf *buf, bool skip_bom)
+{
+	const char *scan = buf->ptr, *end = buf->ptr + buf->size;
+	int skip;
+
+	memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
+
+	/* BOM detection */
+	skip = git_buf_text_detect_bom(&stats->bom, buf, 0);
+	if (skip_bom)
+		scan += skip;
+
+	/* Ignore EOF character */
+	if (buf->size > 0 && end[-1] == '\032')
+		end--;
+
+	/* Counting loop */
+	while (scan < end) {
+		unsigned char c = *scan++;
+
+		if ((c > 0x1F && c < 0x7F) || c > 0x9f)
+			stats->printable++;
+		else switch (c) {
+			case '\0':
+				stats->nul++;
+				stats->nonprintable++;
+				break;
+			case '\n':
+				stats->lf++;
+				break;
+			case '\r':
+				stats->cr++;
+				if (scan < end && *scan == '\n')
+					stats->crlf++;
+				break;
+			case '\t': case '\f': case '\v': case '\b': case 0x1b: /*ESC*/
+				stats->printable++;
+				break;
+			default:
+				stats->nonprintable++;
+				break;
+			}
+	}
+
+	return (stats->nul > 0 ||
+		((stats->printable >> 7) < stats->nonprintable));
+}
diff --git a/src/buf_text.h b/src/buf_text.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c22499bfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/buf_text.h
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 the libgit2 contributors
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_buf_text_h__
+#define INCLUDE_buf_text_h__
+
+#include "buffer.h"
+
+typedef enum {
+	GIT_BOM_NONE = 0,
+	GIT_BOM_UTF8 = 1,
+	GIT_BOM_UTF16_LE = 2,
+	GIT_BOM_UTF16_BE = 3,
+	GIT_BOM_UTF32_LE = 4,
+	GIT_BOM_UTF32_BE = 5
+} git_bom_t;
+
+typedef struct {
+	git_bom_t bom; /* BOM found at head of text */
+	unsigned int nul, cr, lf, crlf; /* NUL, CR, LF and CRLF counts */
+	unsigned int printable, nonprintable; /* These are just approximations! */
+} git_buf_text_stats;
+
+/**
+ * Append string to buffer, prefixing each character from `esc_chars` with
+ * `esc_with` string.
+ *
+ * @param buf Buffer to append data to
+ * @param string String to escape and append
+ * @param esc_chars Characters to be escaped
+ * @param esc_with String to insert in from of each found character
+ * @return 0 on success, <0 on failure (probably allocation problem)
+ */
+extern int git_buf_text_puts_escaped(
+	git_buf *buf,
+	const char *string,
+	const char *esc_chars,
+	const char *esc_with);
+
+/**
+ * Append string escaping characters that are regex special
+ */
+GIT_INLINE(int) git_buf_text_puts_escape_regex(git_buf *buf, const char *string)
+{
+	return git_buf_text_puts_escaped(buf, string, "^.[]$()|*+?{}\\", "\\");
+}
+
+/**
+ * Unescape all characters in a buffer in place
+ *
+ * I.e. remove backslashes
+ */
+extern void git_buf_text_unescape(git_buf *buf);
+
+/**
+ * Fill buffer with the common prefix of a array of strings
+ *
+ * Buffer will be set to empty if there is no common prefix
+ */
+extern int git_buf_text_common_prefix(git_buf *buf, const git_strarray *strs);
+
+/**
+ * Check quickly if buffer looks like it contains binary data
+ *
+ * @param buf Buffer to check
+ * @return true if buffer looks like non-text data
+ */
+extern bool git_buf_text_is_binary(const git_buf *buf);
+
+/**
+ * Check if a buffer begins with a UTF BOM
+ *
+ * @param bom Set to the type of BOM detected or GIT_BOM_NONE
+ * @param buf Buffer in which to check the first bytes for a BOM
+ * @param offset Offset into buffer to look for BOM
+ * @return Number of bytes of BOM data (or 0 if no BOM found)
+ */
+extern int git_buf_text_detect_bom(
+	git_bom_t *bom, const git_buf *buf, size_t offset);
+
+/**
+ * Gather stats for a piece of text
+ *
+ * Fill the `stats` structure with counts of unreadable characters, carriage
+ * returns, etc, so it can be used in heuristics.  This automatically skips
+ * a trailing EOF (\032 character).  Also it will look for a BOM at the
+ * start of the text and can be told to skip that as well.
+ *
+ * @param stats Structure to be filled in
+ * @param buf Text to process
+ * @param skip_bom Exclude leading BOM from stats if true
+ * @return Does the buffer heuristically look like binary data
+ */
+extern bool git_buf_text_gather_stats(
+	git_buf_text_stats *stats, const git_buf *buf, bool skip_bom);
+
+#endif
diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
index e55b0a230..0e2c005df 100644
--- a/src/buffer.c
+++ b/src/buffer.c
@@ -31,15 +31,7 @@ void git_buf_init(git_buf *buf, size_t initial_size)
 		git_buf_grow(buf, initial_size);
 }
 
-int git_buf_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size)
-{
-	int error = git_buf_try_grow(buf, target_size);
-	if (error != 0)
-		buf->ptr = git_buf__oom;
-	return error;
-}
-
-int git_buf_try_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size)
+int git_buf_try_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size, bool mark_oom)
 {
 	char *new_ptr;
 	size_t new_size;
@@ -67,8 +59,12 @@ int git_buf_try_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size)
 	new_size = (new_size + 7) & ~7;
 
 	new_ptr = git__realloc(new_ptr, new_size);
-	if (!new_ptr)
+
+	if (!new_ptr) {
+		if (mark_oom)
+			buf->ptr = git_buf__oom;
 		return -1;
+	}
 
 	buf->asize = new_size;
 	buf->ptr   = new_ptr;
@@ -141,51 +137,6 @@ int git_buf_puts(git_buf *buf, const char *string)
 	return git_buf_put(buf, string, strlen(string));
 }
 
-int git_buf_puts_escaped(
-	git_buf *buf, const char *string, const char *esc_chars, const char *esc_with)
-{
-	const char *scan;
-	size_t total = 0, esc_len = strlen(esc_with), count;
-
-	if (!string)
-		return 0;
-
-	for (scan = string; *scan; ) {
-		/* count run of non-escaped characters */
-		count = strcspn(scan, esc_chars);
-		total += count;
-		scan += count;
-		/* count run of escaped characters */
-		count = strspn(scan, esc_chars);
-		total += count * (esc_len + 1);
-		scan += count;
-	}
-
-	ENSURE_SIZE(buf, buf->size + total + 1);
-
-	for (scan = string; *scan; ) {
-		count = strcspn(scan, esc_chars);
-
-		memmove(buf->ptr + buf->size, scan, count);
-		scan += count;
-		buf->size += count;
-
-		for (count = strspn(scan, esc_chars); count > 0; --count) {
-			/* copy escape sequence */
-			memmove(buf->ptr + buf->size, esc_with, esc_len);
-			buf->size += esc_len;
-			/* copy character to be escaped */
-			buf->ptr[buf->size] = *scan;
-			buf->size++;
-			scan++;
-		}
-	}
-
-	buf->ptr[buf->size] = '\0';
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static const char b64str[64] =
 	"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
 
@@ -497,59 +448,6 @@ int git_buf_cmp(const git_buf *a, const git_buf *b)
 		(a->size < b->size) ? -1 : (a->size > b->size) ? 1 : 0;
 }
 
-int git_buf_common_prefix(git_buf *buf, const git_strarray *strings)
-{
-	size_t i;
-	const char *str, *pfx;
-
-	git_buf_clear(buf);
-
-	if (!strings || !strings->count)
-		return 0;
-
-	/* initialize common prefix to first string */
-	if (git_buf_sets(buf, strings->strings[0]) < 0)
-		return -1;
-
-	/* go through the rest of the strings, truncating to shared prefix */
-	for (i = 1; i < strings->count; ++i) {
-
-		for (str = strings->strings[i], pfx = buf->ptr;
-			 *str && *str == *pfx; str++, pfx++)
-			/* scanning */;
-
-		git_buf_truncate(buf, pfx - buf->ptr);
-
-		if (!buf->size)
-			break;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-bool git_buf_is_binary(const git_buf *buf)
-{
-	size_t i;
-	int printable = 0, nonprintable = 0;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < buf->size; i++) {
-		unsigned char c = buf->ptr[i];
-		if (c > 0x1F && c < 0x7F)
-			printable++;
-		else if (c == '\0')
-			return true;
-		else if (!git__isspace(c))
-			nonprintable++;
-	}
-
-	return ((printable >> 7) < nonprintable);
-}
-
-void git_buf_unescape(git_buf *buf)
-{
-	buf->size = git__unescape(buf->ptr);
-}
-
 int git_buf_splice(
 	git_buf *buf,
 	size_t where,
diff --git a/src/buffer.h b/src/buffer.h
index a2896d486..379216bfc 100644
--- a/src/buffer.h
+++ b/src/buffer.h
@@ -27,30 +27,35 @@ extern char git_buf__oom[];
  * For the cases where GIT_BUF_INIT cannot be used to do static
  * initialization.
  */
-void git_buf_init(git_buf *buf, size_t initial_size);
-
-/**
- * Grow the buffer to hold at least `target_size` bytes.
- *
- * If the allocation fails, this will return an error and the buffer
- * will be marked as invalid for future operations.  The existing
- * contents of the buffer will be preserved however.
- * @return 0 on success or -1 on failure
- */
-int git_buf_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size);
+extern void git_buf_init(git_buf *buf, size_t initial_size);
 
 /**
  * Attempt to grow the buffer to hold at least `target_size` bytes.
  *
- * This is just like `git_buf_grow` except that even if the allocation
- * fails, the git_buf will still be left in a valid state.
+ * If the allocation fails, this will return an error.  If mark_oom is true,
+ * this will mark the buffer as invalid for future operations; if false,
+ * existing buffer content will be preserved, but calling code must handle
+ * that buffer was not expanded.
  */
-int git_buf_try_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size);
+extern int git_buf_try_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size, bool mark_oom);
 
-void git_buf_free(git_buf *buf);
-void git_buf_swap(git_buf *buf_a, git_buf *buf_b);
-char *git_buf_detach(git_buf *buf);
-void git_buf_attach(git_buf *buf, char *ptr, size_t asize);
+/**
+ * Grow the buffer to hold at least `target_size` bytes.
+ *
+ * If the allocation fails, this will return an error and the buffer will be
+ * marked as invalid for future operations, invaliding contents.
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success or -1 on failure
+ */
+GIT_INLINE(int) git_buf_grow(git_buf *buf, size_t target_size)
+{
+	return git_buf_try_grow(buf, target_size, true);
+}
+
+extern void git_buf_free(git_buf *buf);
+extern void git_buf_swap(git_buf *buf_a, git_buf *buf_b);
+extern char *git_buf_detach(git_buf *buf);
+extern void git_buf_attach(git_buf *buf, char *ptr, size_t asize);
 
 /**
  * Test if there have been any reallocation failures with this git_buf.
@@ -91,18 +96,6 @@ void git_buf_rtruncate_at_char(git_buf *path, char separator);
 int git_buf_join_n(git_buf *buf, char separator, int nbuf, ...);
 int git_buf_join(git_buf *buf, char separator, const char *str_a, const char *str_b);
 
-/**
- * Copy string into buf prefixing every character that is contained in the
- * esc_chars string with the esc_with string.
- */
-int git_buf_puts_escaped(
-	git_buf *buf, const char *string, const char *esc_chars, const char *esc_with);
-
-GIT_INLINE(int) git_buf_puts_escape_regex(git_buf *buf, const char *string)
-{
-	return git_buf_puts_escaped(buf, string, "^.[]$()|*+?{}\\", "\\");
-}
-
 /**
  * Join two strings as paths, inserting a slash between as needed.
  * @return 0 on success, -1 on failure
@@ -146,15 +139,6 @@ void git_buf_rtrim(git_buf *buf);
 
 int git_buf_cmp(const git_buf *a, const git_buf *b);
 
-/* Fill buf with the common prefix of a array of strings */
-int git_buf_common_prefix(git_buf *buf, const git_strarray *strings);
-
-/* Check if buffer looks like it contains binary data */
-bool git_buf_is_binary(const git_buf *buf);
-
-/* Unescape all characters in a buffer */
-void git_buf_unescape(git_buf *buf);
-
 /* Write data as base64 encoded in buffer */
 int git_buf_put_base64(git_buf *buf, const char *data, size_t len);
 
diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index 5ee0d39ff..6347f7df7 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "config.h"
 #include "git2/config.h"
 #include "vector.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #if GIT_WIN32
 # include <windows.h>
 #endif
@@ -803,7 +804,7 @@ int git_config_rename_section(
 	int error = -1;
 	struct rename_data data;
 
-	git_buf_puts_escape_regex(&pattern,  old_section_name);
+	git_buf_text_puts_escape_regex(&pattern,  old_section_name);
 	git_buf_puts(&pattern, "\\..+");
 	if (git_buf_oom(&pattern))
 		goto cleanup;
diff --git a/src/config_file.c b/src/config_file.c
index 7cc812aa4..354a91986 100644
--- a/src/config_file.c
+++ b/src/config_file.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "fileops.h"
 #include "filebuf.h"
 #include "buffer.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #include "git2/config.h"
 #include "git2/types.h"
 #include "strmap.h"
@@ -854,17 +855,14 @@ fail_parse:
 
 static int skip_bom(diskfile_backend *cfg)
 {
-	static const char utf8_bom[] = { '\xef', '\xbb', '\xbf' };
+	git_bom_t bom;
+	int bom_offset = git_buf_text_detect_bom(&bom,
+		&cfg->reader.buffer, cfg->reader.read_ptr - cfg->reader.buffer.ptr);
 
-	if (cfg->reader.buffer.size < sizeof(utf8_bom))
-		return 0;
+	if (bom == GIT_BOM_UTF8)
+		cfg->reader.read_ptr += bom_offset;
 
-	if (memcmp(cfg->reader.read_ptr, utf8_bom, sizeof(utf8_bom)) == 0)
-		cfg->reader.read_ptr += sizeof(utf8_bom);
-
-	/* TODO: the reference implementation does pretty stupid
-		stuff with the BoM
-	*/
+	/* TODO: reference implementation is pretty stupid with BoM */
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/crlf.c b/src/crlf.c
index 5e86b4eb6..80204ebf0 100644
--- a/src/crlf.c
+++ b/src/crlf.c
@@ -148,8 +148,11 @@ static int crlf_apply_to_odb(git_filter *self, git_buf *dest, const git_buf *sou
 	if (filter->attrs.crlf_action == GIT_CRLF_AUTO ||
 		filter->attrs.crlf_action == GIT_CRLF_GUESS) {
 
-		git_text_stats stats;
-		git_text_gather_stats(&stats, source);
+		git_buf_text_stats stats;
+
+		/* Check heuristics for binary vs text... */
+		if (git_buf_text_gather_stats(&stats, source, false))
+			return -1;
 
 		/*
 		 * We're currently not going to even try to convert stuff
@@ -159,12 +162,6 @@ static int crlf_apply_to_odb(git_filter *self, git_buf *dest, const git_buf *sou
 		if (stats.cr != stats.crlf)
 			return -1;
 
-		/*
-		 * And add some heuristics for binary vs text, of course...
-		 */
-		if (git_text_is_binary(&stats))
-			return -1;
-
 #if 0
 		if (crlf_action == CRLF_GUESS) {
 			/*
diff --git a/src/diff_output.c b/src/diff_output.c
index 3d5e03a29..e137fd0f2 100644
--- a/src/diff_output.c
+++ b/src/diff_output.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int diff_delta_is_binary_by_content(
 		search.ptr  = map->data;
 		search.size = min(map->len, 4000);
 
-		if (git_buf_is_binary(&search))
+		if (git_buf_text_is_binary(&search))
 			file->flags |= GIT_DIFF_FILE_BINARY;
 		else
 			file->flags |= GIT_DIFF_FILE_NOT_BINARY;
diff --git a/src/filter.c b/src/filter.c
index f2ab1b85a..6d27c0c46 100644
--- a/src/filter.c
+++ b/src/filter.c
@@ -13,75 +13,6 @@
 #include "git2/config.h"
 #include "blob.h"
 
-/* Tweaked from Core Git. I wonder what we could use this for... */
-void git_text_gather_stats(git_text_stats *stats, const git_buf *text)
-{
-	size_t i;
-
-	memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
-
-	for (i = 0; i < git_buf_len(text); i++) {
-		unsigned char c = text->ptr[i];
-
-		if (c == '\r') {
-			stats->cr++;
-
-			if (i + 1 < git_buf_len(text) && text->ptr[i + 1] == '\n')
-				stats->crlf++;
-		}
-
-		else if (c == '\n')
-			stats->lf++;
-
-		else if (c == 127)
-			/* DEL */
-			stats->nonprintable++;
-
-		else if (c <= 0x1F || (c >= 0x80 && c <= 0x9F)) {
-			switch (c) {
-				/* BS, HT, ESC and FF */
-			case '\b': case '\t': case '\033': case '\014':
-				stats->printable++;
-				break;
-			case 0:
-				stats->nul++;
-				/* fall through */
-			default:
-				stats->nonprintable++;
-			}
-		}
-
-		else
-			stats->printable++;
-	}
-
-	/* If file ends with EOF then don't count this EOF as non-printable. */
-	if (git_buf_len(text) >= 1 && text->ptr[text->size - 1] == '\032')
-		stats->nonprintable--;
-}
-
-/*
- * Fresh from Core Git
- */
-int git_text_is_binary(git_text_stats *stats)
-{
-	if (stats->nul)
-		return 1;
-
-	if ((stats->printable >> 7) < stats->nonprintable)
-		return 1;
-	/*
-	 * Other heuristics? Average line length might be relevant,
-	 * as might LF vs CR vs CRLF counts..
-	 *
-	 * NOTE! It might be normal to have a low ratio of CRLF to LF
-	 * (somebody starts with a LF-only file and edits it with an editor
-	 * that adds CRLF only to lines that are added..). But do  we
-	 * want to support CR-only? Probably not.
-	 */
-	return 0;
-}
-
 int git_filters_load(git_vector *filters, git_repository *repo, const char *path, int mode)
 {
 	int error;
diff --git a/src/filter.h b/src/filter.h
index b9beb4942..2b5051c69 100644
--- a/src/filter.h
+++ b/src/filter.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include "common.h"
 #include "buffer.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #include "git2/odb.h"
 #include "git2/repository.h"
 
@@ -31,14 +32,6 @@ typedef enum {
 	GIT_CRLF_AUTO,
 } git_crlf_t;
 
-typedef struct {
-	/* NUL, CR, LF and CRLF counts */
-	unsigned int nul, cr, lf, crlf;
-
-	/* These are just approximations! */
-	unsigned int printable, nonprintable;
-} git_text_stats;
-
 /*
  * FILTER API
  */
@@ -99,24 +92,4 @@ extern int git_filter_add__crlf_to_odb(git_vector *filters, git_repository *repo
 /* Add CRLF, from ODB to worktree */
 extern int git_filter_add__crlf_to_workdir(git_vector *filters, git_repository *repo, const char *path);
 
-
-/*
- * PLAINTEXT API
- */
-
-/*
- * Gather stats for a piece of text
- *
- * Fill the `stats` structure with information on the number of
- * unreadable characters, carriage returns, etc, so it can be
- * used in heuristics.
- */
-extern void git_text_gather_stats(git_text_stats *stats, const git_buf *text);
-
-/*
- * Process `git_text_stats` data generated by `git_text_stat` to see
- * if it qualifies as a binary file
- */
-extern int git_text_is_binary(git_text_stats *stats);
-
 #endif
diff --git a/src/path.c b/src/path.c
index 98351bec3..87eded3c4 100644
--- a/src/path.c
+++ b/src/path.c
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static bool _check_dir_contents(
 	size_t sub_size = strlen(sub);
 
 	/* leave base valid even if we could not make space for subdir */
-	if (git_buf_try_grow(dir, dir_size + sub_size + 2) < 0)
+	if (git_buf_try_grow(dir, dir_size + sub_size + 2, false) < 0)
 		return false;
 
 	/* save excursion */
diff --git a/src/pathspec.c b/src/pathspec.c
index fc6547afe..993b44667 100644
--- a/src/pathspec.c
+++ b/src/pathspec.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "pathspec.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #include "attr_file.h"
 
 /* what is the common non-wildcard prefix for all items in the pathspec */
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ char *git_pathspec_prefix(const git_strarray *pathspec)
 	const char *scan;
 
 	if (!pathspec || !pathspec->count ||
-		git_buf_common_prefix(&prefix, pathspec) < 0)
+		git_buf_text_common_prefix(&prefix, pathspec) < 0)
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* diff prefix will only be leading non-wildcards */
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ char *git_pathspec_prefix(const git_strarray *pathspec)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	git_buf_unescape(&prefix);
+	git_buf_text_unescape(&prefix);
 
 	return git_buf_detach(&prefix);
 }
diff --git a/src/submodule.c b/src/submodule.c
index 15158f0d8..c117255d4 100644
--- a/src/submodule.c
+++ b/src/submodule.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include "git2/index.h"
 #include "git2/submodule.h"
 #include "buffer.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 #include "vector.h"
 #include "posix.h"
 #include "config_file.h"
@@ -782,7 +783,7 @@ int git_submodule_reload(git_submodule *submodule)
 		git_buf path = GIT_BUF_INIT;
 
 		git_buf_sets(&path, "submodule\\.");
-		git_buf_puts_escape_regex(&path, submodule->name);
+		git_buf_text_puts_escape_regex(&path, submodule->name);
 		git_buf_puts(&path, ".*");
 
 		if (git_buf_oom(&path))
diff --git a/tests-clar/core/buffer.c b/tests-clar/core/buffer.c
index 236bf39da..40fc4c571 100644
--- a/tests-clar/core/buffer.c
+++ b/tests-clar/core/buffer.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "clar_libgit2.h"
 #include "buffer.h"
+#include "buf_text.h"
 
 #define TESTSTR "Have you seen that? Have you seeeen that??"
 const char *test_string = TESTSTR;
@@ -576,37 +577,37 @@ void test_core_buffer__11(void)
 
 	t.strings = t1;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "");
 
 	t.strings = t2;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "some");
 
 	t.strings = t3;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "");
 
 	t.strings = t4;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "happ");
 
 	t.strings = t5;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "happ");
 
 	t.strings = t6;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "");
 
 	t.strings = t7;
 	t.count = 3;
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_common_prefix(&a, &t));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_common_prefix(&a, &t));
 	cl_assert_equal_s(a.ptr, "");
 
 	git_buf_free(&a);
@@ -641,19 +642,19 @@ void test_core_buffer__puts_escaped(void)
 	git_buf a = GIT_BUF_INIT;
 
 	git_buf_clear(&a);
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "", ""));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "", ""));
 	cl_assert_equal_s("this is a test", a.ptr);
 
 	git_buf_clear(&a);
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "t", "\\"));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "t", "\\"));
 	cl_assert_equal_s("\\this is a \\tes\\t", a.ptr);
 
 	git_buf_clear(&a);
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "i ", "__"));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_puts_escaped(&a, "this is a test", "i ", "__"));
 	cl_assert_equal_s("th__is__ __is__ a__ test", a.ptr);
 
 	git_buf_clear(&a);
-	cl_git_pass(git_buf_puts_escape_regex(&a, "^match\\s*[A-Z]+.*"));
+	cl_git_pass(git_buf_text_puts_escape_regex(&a, "^match\\s*[A-Z]+.*"));
 	cl_assert_equal_s("\\^match\\\\s\\*\\[A-Z\\]\\+\\.\\*", a.ptr);
 
 	git_buf_free(&a);
@@ -663,7 +664,7 @@ static void assert_unescape(char *expected, char *to_unescape) {
 	git_buf buf = GIT_BUF_INIT;
 
 	cl_git_pass(git_buf_sets(&buf, to_unescape));
-	git_buf_unescape(&buf);
+	git_buf_text_unescape(&buf);
 	cl_assert_equal_s(expected, buf.ptr);
 	cl_assert_equal_sz(strlen(expected), buf.size);
 
diff --git a/tests-clar/object/blob/filter.c b/tests-clar/object/blob/filter.c
index 785489849..b9bbfff0c 100644
--- a/tests-clar/object/blob/filter.c
+++ b/tests-clar/object/blob/filter.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include "filter.h"
 
 static git_repository *g_repo = NULL;
-#define NUM_TEST_OBJECTS 6
+#define NUM_TEST_OBJECTS 8
 static git_oid g_oids[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS];
 static const char *g_raw[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
 	"",
@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@ static const char *g_raw[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
 	"foo\rbar\r",
 	"foo\r\nbar\r\n",
 	"foo\nbar\rboth\r\nreversed\n\ragain\nproblems\r",
-	"123\n\000\001\002\003\004abc\255\254\253\r\n"
+	"123\n\000\001\002\003\004abc\255\254\253\r\n",
+	"\xEF\xBB\xBFThis is UTF-8\n",
+	"\xFE\xFF\x00T\x00h\x00i\x00s\x00!"
 };
-static git_off_t g_len[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = { -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 17 };
-static git_text_stats g_stats[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
-	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
-	{ 0, 0, 2, 0, 6, 0 },
-	{ 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, 0 },
-	{ 0, 2, 2, 2, 6, 0 },
-	{ 0, 4, 4, 1, 31, 0 },
-	{ 1, 1, 2, 1, 9, 5 }
+static git_off_t g_len[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = { -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 17, -1, 12 };
+static git_buf_text_stats g_stats[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
+	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
+	{ 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 6, 0 },
+	{ 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, 0 },
+	{ 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 6, 0 },
+	{ 0, 0, 4, 4, 1, 31, 0 },
+	{ 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 9, 5 },
+	{ GIT_BOM_UTF8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 16, 0 },
+	{ GIT_BOM_UTF16_BE, 5, 0, 0, 0, 7, 5 },
 };
 static git_buf g_crlf_filtered[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
 	{ "", 0, 0 },
@@ -29,7 +33,9 @@ static git_buf g_crlf_filtered[NUM_TEST_OBJECTS] = {
 	{ "foo\rbar\r", 0, 8 },
 	{ "foo\nbar\n", 0, 8 },
 	{ "foo\nbar\rboth\nreversed\n\ragain\nproblems\r", 0, 38 },
-	{ "123\n\000\001\002\003\004abc\255\254\253\n", 0, 16 }
+	{ "123\n\000\001\002\003\004abc\255\254\253\n", 0, 16 },
+	{ "\xEF\xBB\xBFThis is UTF-8\n", 0, 17 },
+	{ "\xFE\xFF\x00T\x00h\x00i\x00s\x00!", 0, 12 }
 };
 
 void test_object_blob_filter__initialize(void)
@@ -76,12 +82,12 @@ void test_object_blob_filter__stats(void)
 	int i;
 	git_blob *blob;
 	git_buf buf = GIT_BUF_INIT;
-	git_text_stats stats;
+	git_buf_text_stats stats;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NUM_TEST_OBJECTS; i++) {
 		cl_git_pass(git_blob_lookup(&blob, g_repo, &g_oids[i]));
 		cl_git_pass(git_blob__getbuf(&buf, blob));
-		git_text_gather_stats(&stats, &buf);
+		git_buf_text_gather_stats(&stats, &buf, false);
 		cl_assert(memcmp(&g_stats[i], &stats, sizeof(stats)) == 0);
 		git_blob_free(blob);
 	}