The term "character" is confusing: does it mean 7bit/ASCII character or Unicode Code Point? As an example, with git config --add core.commentChar • // Bullet (U+2022) git does not complain, but it is rejected later. A counter example is using UTF-8 with "user.name", where it is handled correctly. I sent this email after reading the documentation of "git diff --color-moved=blocks, where the text says: > Blocks of moved text of at least 20 alphanumeric characters are detected greedily. In this case it is not clear if the number of characters are counted as UTF-8 or normal 8bit bytes. Thanks Manlio Perillo
