From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:38:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.
Message-ID: <200903071138.14683.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903020941120.17877@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>


Slightly related; A new cygwin (not msysgit-related) version with UTF-8 support was announced. Most notably:

- New setlocale implementation allows to specify POSIX locale strings.
  You can now use, for instance in bash, `export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8'.
  The language and territory will be ignored for now, the charset
  will be used by multibyte-releated functions.

- UTF-8 filenames are supported now. 

- Support UTF-8 in console window.

This certainly makes it more feasable to interoperate with *nix repos that has non-ascii metadata and file names.

-- robin