From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:51:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange characters
Message-ID: <20110711085111.GA6594@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <1310066131287-6559596.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:15:31PM -0700, bryceadamprescott wrote:
> I've used subversion before but I've only used git a handful of times. At my
> new job I am using git and me and my boss (who is also new to git) is having
> a problem with UTF-8 characters. It seems that git is replacing some
> characters here and there with strange UTF-8 characters that display as a
> question mark in a diamond. Strangely enough the code still compiles with
> thousands of warnings about the UTF-8 characters. Any help would be
> appreciated.

Git shouldn't modify the contents of the files at all (except for
line-end if you ask it to). Could you provide a reproducible example
of what's happening?

Cheers,
   cmn