From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Singer Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:49:13 +0100 Message-ID: <4B14CA79.6040408@syntevo.com> References: <4B1168D4.5010902@syntevo.com> <4B11AD43.3070307@gmail.com> <4B123C80.30607@syntevo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 01 08:48:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFNTi-0003g0-IC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:48:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753479AbZLAHsn (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:48:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753390AbZLAHsm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:48:42 -0500 Received: from syntevo.com ([85.214.39.145]:49607 "EHLO syntevo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753155AbZLAHsm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:48:42 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id 134FE37C7B0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4B123C80.30607@syntevo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Singer wrote: > Reece Dunn wrote: >> This is a bug in git's character encoding/conversion logic. It looks >> like git is taking the source string and converting it to ascii to be >> displayed on the console output (e.g. by using the WideCharToMultiByte >> conversion API) -- these APIs will use a '?' character for characters >> that it cannot map to the target character encoding (like the Hiragana >> characters that you are using). > > I have a screenshot from a SmartGit user where 1) the console can show the > far-east-characters and 2) Git *can* show the characters escaped. Are there > two versions of Git available or does Gits behaviour depends somehow on the > system locale? Does no Git expert know what to do to get it working? -- Tom