Hi, On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Peter Krefting wrote: > It comes from the Unix tradition, unfortunately, that file names are > just a stream of bytes, instead of a stream of characters mapped to a > byte sequence. How is that different from .txt not having a defined locale? Really, please, do not add to the non-information. > Since most people on Linux nowadays probably are running in a > UTF-8-based locale, I tried introducing some (very incomplete) patches > for the Windows port to make this assumption, to allow Windows users to > make use of non-ASCII file names (Windows uses Unicode strings for file > names). Mac OS uses (semi-decomposed) UTF-8 strings, so it should also > be able to make use of this. Most Russian programmers I know do not run in a UTF-8 locale. > Unfortunately, there seems to be quite some resistance towards deciding > on a platform- and language-independent way of storing file names in > Git, but rather just going the "Unix" way and making it someone elses > problem. I find this a bit sad. I find it a bit unfair that you say that, after many people participated in that very informative thread, and after I tried to work with you personally on getting the stuff into 4msysgit.git. Actually, not just only a bit. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html