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

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TSThomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
Date
Nov 29, 2009, 09:18 UTC
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Maximilien Noal wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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?

-- 
Tom
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  9. Thomas SingerNov 29, 2009
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  27. Reece DunnNov 28, 2009

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