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

> Maximilien Noal wrote:
>> About the 'boxes' :
>>
>> The thing is, Windows' files for Asian languages are _not_ installed by
>> default.
>>
>> They can be installed (even while installing Windows), by checking the
>> two checkboxes under the "Supplemtal languages support" groupbox in the
>> "Languages" tab of the "Regional and language options" control panel.
>> *re-take some breath ;-) *
>>
>> It will remove the "boxes" in Explorer and display nice Asian characters.
>
> Thanks, now the characters are showing up fine in the Explorer.
>
> Reece Dunn wrote:
>> This is a bug in git's character encoding/conversion logic. It looks
>> like git is taking the source string and converting it to ascii to be
>> displayed on the console output (e.g. by using the WideCharToMultiByte
>> conversion API) -- these APIs will use a '?' character for characters
>> that it cannot map to the target character encoding (like the Hiragana
>> characters that you are using).
>
> I have a screenshot from a SmartGit user where 1) the console can show the
> far-east-characters and 2) Git *can* show the characters escaped. Are there
> two versions of Git available or does Gits behaviour depends somehow on the
> system locale?