On Samstag, 28. November 2009, Thomas Singer wrote: > I've created a file with unicode characters in its name (using Java): > > new File(dir, "\u3041\u3042\u3043\u3044").createNewFile(); >... > $ git add . > fatal: unable to stat '????': No such file or directory > > What should I do to make Git recognize these characters? You cannot on a German Windows. You can switch your Windows to Japanese (not the UI, just the codepage aka "locale"; yes, that's possible, I have such a setup), but even then the characters of the file name will be recorded in Shift-JIS encoding, not UTF-8 or Unicode. When you later switch back to German, these bytes will be interpreted as cp850 or cp1252 text and displayed accordingly. -- Hannes -- 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