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From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 15:47:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7e2e271-dcec-2886-f33e-62778a429850@rawbw.com> (raw)

I have the file that contains the "∞" character in its name.


When this file was modified, 'git status .' showed it as:

 >    modified:   "file-name-\342\210\236.ext"


It replaced the UTF8 character with its byte representation, and put the 
file name in quotes.


git should show such files without escaping when the terminal is able to 
show UTF8 characters because escaping decreases readability.

$ env | grep TERM
COLORTERM=truecolor
TERM=xterm-256color

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=C.UTF-8

$ env | grep CTYPE
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8


Thanks,

Yuri


             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-26 22:47 Yuri [this message]
2021-05-26 23:32 ` [BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages Junio C Hamano
2021-05-26 23:41   ` Yuri
2021-05-27  4:56     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-05-27 14:02       ` Jeff King
2021-05-27 20:50         ` Yuri
2021-05-28  4:39           ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-28  4:45             ` Yuri
2021-05-29  9:27               ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-05-30 21:44                 ` Jeff King
2021-05-30 21:55                   ` Yuri
2021-05-31  1:14                     ` Thomas Guyot
2021-05-31  3:35                       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-30 22:23                   ` Junio C Hamano

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