From: Thomas Singer Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:04:32 GMT Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Message-ID: <4B14DC20.6040808@syntevo.com> In-Reply-To: <4B14DA78.70906@syntevo.com> Thomas Singer wrote: > Johannes Sixt wrote: >> You can switch your Windows to Japanese (not the UI, just the codepage >> aka "locale"; yes, that's possible, I have such a setup), but even then the >> characters of the file name will be recorded in Shift-JIS encoding, not UTF-8 >> or Unicode. When you later switch back to German, these bytes will be >> interpreted as cp850 or cp1252 text and displayed accordingly. > > Who is interpreting the file names? Windows or Git or Java? To be more precise: Who is interpreting the bytes in the file names as characters? Windows, Git or Java? -- Tom