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Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Nov 28, 2009, 20:00 UTC
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<200911282100.23000.j6t@kdbg.org>
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<4B1168D4.5010902@syntevo.com>
On Samstag, 28. November 2009, Thomas Singer wrote:
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> I've created a file with unicode characters in its name (using Java):
>
>  new File(dir, "\u3041\u3042\u3043\u3044").createNewFile();
>...
> $ git add .
> fatal: unable to stat '????': No such file or directory
>
> What should I do to make Git recognize these characters?
You cannot on a German Windows.

You can switch your Windows to Japanese (not the UI, just the codepage aka "locale"; yes, that's possible, I have such a setup), but even then the characters of the file name will be recorded in Shift-JIS encoding, not UTF-8 or Unicode. When you later switch back to German, these bytes will be interpreted as cp850 or cp1252 text and displayed accordingly.

-- Hannes
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