On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:26, Matthias Moeller <matthias.moeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been searching the web for help and found lengthy discussions > which state that this is a common problem of the HFS+ filesystem. > What I did not find was a solution to this problem. Is there a solution > to this problem? Is this problem particular to Git, or do you also get it if you e.g. rsync from the Linux box to the Mac OS X box? > # "U\314\210bersicht.xls" You probably have to configure your shell on OSX to render UTF-8 correctly. It's just showing the raw escaped byte sequence instead of a character there. There isn't anything wrong with OSX in this case, filename encoding on any POSIX system is only done by convention. You'll find that you have similar problems on Linux if you encode filename in Big5 or UTF-32. Linux will happily accept it, but your shell / other applications will render it as unknown goo because they expect UTF-8. -- 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