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Re: git-filter-branch : LANG / LC_ALL = C breaks UTF-8 author names

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 13:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20100820133244.GB15736@burratino>
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<4C6E8109.5030202@leadformance.com>
Richard MICHAEL wrote:
> I am filtering our repo with git-filter-branch, but as the sed
> script runs with LANG=C LC_ALL=C (7 bit US ASCII), it dies on
> commits authored by our team members with accented names.

Yep, someone else recently sent a report about such a sed version, too. It is breaking our fragile minds; we ought to find some way to deal with it, but we haven't yet.

Jonathan
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