On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Git uses the 8-bit file APIs, and Windows doesn't support setting UTF-8 as the locale. Some work have been done in msysGit to use _wopen() and friends instead, but AFAIK it's not completed. See the branch called "work/utf-filenames" in git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/4msysgit.git if you are interested in helping to complete it. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- 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