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

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Dec 1, 2009, 10:08 UTC
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Thomas Singer schrieb:
> To be more precise: Who is interpreting the bytes in the file names as
> characters? Windows, Git or Java?

In the case of git: Windows does it, using the console's codepage to convert between bytes and Unicode.

I don't know about Java, but I guess that no conversion is necessary because Java is Unicode-aware.

-- Hannes
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