Johannes Sixt wrote: > Thomas Singer schrieb: >> I'm quite surprised, that -- as I >> understand you -- msys-Git (or Git at all?) is not able to handle all >> characters (aka unicode) at the same time. I expected it would be better >> than older tools, e.g. SVN. > > This has been discussed at length here and in the msysgit mailing list. > Git expects that the file system returns file names with the same byte > sequence that git used to create a file. On Windows, this works only as > long as you do not switch the codepage. Now you confuse me: is this a problem of Windows, Git using a less capable Windows-API call or is there no unicode-capable API call to list file names on Windows? I ask myself how Java does it in its internals, finally it (also) consists of a C-base, I guess. -- Tom -- 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