On Tue, 12 May 2009, Heiko Voigt wrote: > At the moment non-ascii encodings of file/usernames are not very well > supported by git. This will most likely change in the future but to > allow repositories to be portable among different file/operating systems > this check is enabled by default. > + # non-ascii username issue a warning in git gui so tell the > + # user to change it > + if ! git config user.name | is_ascii; then > + echo "Please only use ascii characters in your username!" > + exit 1 > + fi > + > + if ! git config user.email | is_ascii; then > + echo "Please only use ascii characters in your email!" > + exit 1 > + fi Actually 1.) there is no easy way to avoid non-ASCII names at least in user.name (I think they are not allowed in email), but 2.) there is no trouble with non-ASCII encoding of commits, as they have 'encoding' header if it is not uft-8 (see *encoding* config variables). -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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