# Truncating file names with Unicode characters When shortening file names that contain Unicode characters, git performs truncation without awareness of two-byte characters. That often leads to splitting a character in half and displaying a garbage byte that's left. Unawareness of Unicode also means that filename length is calculated incorrectly and some output gets misaligned. I have tested this with git 2.14.1 on Windows and with git 2.11.0 on Linux. My configuration includes setting `core.quotepath = off` to display Unicode paths. # Example: `git log --stat` ## Bad output: half-characters and wrong text alignment The last file name gets truncated in the middle of the character (`ˆ` is what's left of it). Text alignment is off because string lengths are calculated in bytes instead of characters. Extension/README.md | 28 +++++++++ .../Catalog.Номенклатура.xml | 32 ++++++++++ .../Configuration.xml | 5 +- ...етПереработчика.ObjectModule.txt | 39 ++++++++++++ ...cument.ОтчетПереработчика.xml | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../Enum.СтавкиНДС.xml | 24 ++++++++ ...ˆирениеERPПотяркин_2018-06-05.cfe | Bin 0 -> 22018 bytes 7 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ## Good output with ASCII file names Truncation and alignment are done right because each character is represented by a single byte. .../index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ docs/posts/2017/loops-in-power-query-m-language/index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ .../index.html | 7 +++++++ .../temporary-virtual-environment-for-python/index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ .../index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ docs/posts/2018/getting-started-with-libpq/index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ .../index.html | 14 ++++++++++++++ .../2018/unit-testing-in-power-query-m-language/index.html | 7 +++++++ 8 files changed, 98 insertions(+)