Robin Rosenberg: > Git (or msys) under windows is somewhat stupid here as it involves > the eight-bit locale despite running in a unicode OS. To get UTF-8 on > XP you can set the codepage to UTF-8 (called 65001 in windows). That presents itself with a lot of other issues, however, as the char-based file APIs were only designed to handle up to double-byte characters. To implement proper Unicode file name support on Windows, one need to use the "wide" APIs (using wchar_t). Using those APIs, it does not matter what locale the system is set to. Everything is then UTF-16, which is trivially converted to and from UTF-8 (and there are even native APIs to do it if one can't be bothered to write code for it). I have been meaning to check out a copy of the Msysgit source tree and see how difficult it would be to replace the file API layer with proper Unicode support, but time keeps fleeing from me, so I never seem to get around to :-/ -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- 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
