Re: Bug: pull --rebase with é in name

> René Haber <rene@habr.de> writes:
> 
>> sh -c '                                   
>>   . /sw/lib/git-core/git-sh-setup
>>    get_author_ident_from_commit 16b94413cbce12531e8f946286851598449d3913
>> '
>> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Ren'é Haber
>> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='rene@habr.de'
>> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1329212923 +0100'
> 
> I think this is the same issue that we recently discussed on #git-devel,
> where some broken versions of sed will fail to match "any character"
> with '.' even under LC_ALL=C.  Will "shruggar" Palmer (cc) had this
> issue under OS X with a build of GNU sed that ignored LC_*.
> 
> You can verify that this is the problem by looking at
> 
>  printf "\370\235\204\236\n" | LC_CTYPE=C sed 's/./x/g' | xxd
> 
> It should say
> 
>  0000000: 7878 7878 0a                             xxxx.
> 
> That is, the garbage (if you try to read it as UTF-8) in the printf
> string was matched and replaced byte-by-byte with 'x'.  However,
> Will was getting the unreplaced results
> 
>  0000000: f89d 849e 0a                             .....
> 
> I'm not sure he has followed up on that problem; the only hope may be to
> get a better 'sed'.