On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 07:51:54 +0000 Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Have you ever heard about XCompose? Thanks Michal