From: Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 07:51:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username
Message-ID: <20190903075154.GA18496@instance-1.europe-west6-a.c.vaulted-journal-250706.internal>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1rwyv6tq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I'd rather leave the sleeping dog lie, if we need to encourage
> people to live in 21st century and step outside US-ASCII to do so,
> then do that instead.

+1 to let the sleeping dog lie. When you say we should encourage people
to step outside US-ASCII what do you mean by that?

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 09:50:48PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> As much as I would love to agree Windows is dragging us down here. I
> don't think there is any other major (or even just not completely
> obscure) platform that does not support UTF-8 in the terminal.

Well, I don't know how much Windows is related to that. On my Linux
machine my user.name ends with a single quote: I have a US keyboard but
my name ends with an "o grave" and I can't type it.