Thomas Singer schrieb: > Is it a German Windows limitation, that far-east characters are not > supported on it (but work fine on a Japanese Windows), are there different > (mysys)Git versions available or is this a configuration issue? It is a matter of configuration. Since 8 bits are not sufficient to support Japanese alphabet in addition to the German alphabet, programs that are not Unicode aware -- such as git -- have to make a decision which alphabet they support. The decision is made by picking a "codepage". On German Windows, you are in codepage 850 (in the console). The filenames (that actually are in Unicode) are converted to bytes according to codepage 850 *before* git sees them. If your filenames contain Hiragana, they are substituted by the "unknown character" marker because there is no place for them in codepage 850. However, you can install Japanese language support on German Windows. Then you can change your console to codepage 932: chcp 932 When you run git from *this* console, Hiragana in the filenames are converted to cp932 before git sees them. The resulting byte sequence is different from the one in cp850, but git will be able to see that the file exists and was modified, and you can 'git add' it. But if you have files with umlauts, they will not be recognized anymore because umlauts have no place in cp932. In neither case can you exchange the repository with Linux if you have your locale set to UTF-8 on Linux, because neither byte sequence (umlauts from cp850 or Hiragana from cp932) are valid UTF-8 sequences, let alone result in the expected glyphs. Corollary: Stick to ASCII file names. There have been suggestions to switch the console to codepage 65001 (UTF-8), but I have never heard of success reports. I'm not saying it does not work, though. -- 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