On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I'd rather leave the sleeping dog lie, if we need to encourage > people to live in 21st century and step outside US-ASCII to do so, > then do that instead. +1 to let the sleeping dog lie. When you say we should encourage people to step outside US-ASCII what do you mean by that? On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 09:50:48PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote: > As much as I would love to agree Windows is dragging us down here. I > don't think there is any other major (or even just not completely > obscure) platform that does not support UTF-8 in the terminal. Well, I don't know how much Windows is related to that. On my Linux machine my user.name ends with a single quote: I have a US keyboard but my name ends with an "o grave" and I can't type it.