Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date: Jun 22, 2015, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20150622150428.GA14100@hashpling.org>
In-Reply-To: <55880AF4.4000206@traverse.email>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Bastien Traverse wrote:

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> test case:
> $ mkdir accent-test && cd !$
> $ git init
> $ touch rêve réunion
> $ git status
> On branch master
> 
> Initial commit
> 
> Untracked files:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> 
> 	"r\303\251union"
> 	"r\303\252ve"

Note that these aren't "decomposed" (in the unicode decomposition sense) but are merely octal escaped representations of the utf-8 encoded file names.

My understanding that this is normal and probably dates back (at least for status as far as:

	commit a734d0b10bd0f5554abb3acdf11426040cfc4df0
	Author: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
	Date:   Fri Mar 7 05:30:58 2008 +0300

	Make private quote_path() in wt-status.c available as
quote_path_relative()

	[...]

The behaviour can be changed by setting the git config variable "core.quotePath" to false.