Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2008, 10:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20080118103036.GD14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200801181042.37391.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> 
> I just had to investigate this a bit, so on a Vista machine I started a cmd
> prompt and typed mode con: cp select=65001, selected the lucida font and then
> echo å >x.txt and opened it in notepad and it was UTF-8 encoded.

Yes, but have you tried to run any batch file? At least, on WinXP all batch files silently stopped working after choosing 65001, and I don't know what else gets broken, because Microsoft C library does not work with encoding that requires more than two bytes per character.

> So there might
> be some hope after all. I don't know how to change the encoding for non-console
> apps. I leave that as an excercise for the list.

It is not difficult to change the current encoding in any Windows application, the real issue is that neither Microsoft C library nor Cygwin library does not work correctly with UTF-8. There is a patch for Cygwin though...

Dmitry