On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 19:02, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Montag, 4. Oktober 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> Is anyone thinking "unicode" around here? > > My recommendation these days is that you should not use git if you care about > Unicode filenames: git is tied to POSIX in this regard, which defines > filenames as streams of *bytes*. A SCM is all about giving meaning to streams of bytes. Just because POSIX only says that filenames are \0-delimited blobs that doesn't mean you can't have some annotation elsewhere that says "hey, these blobs are in $encoding". <insert another disclaimer here about implementing this being a huge task, but I'm just saying...> -- 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