From: Johannes Sixt Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:08:46 GMT Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Message-ID: <4B14EB2E.9020906@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: <4B14DC20.6040808@syntevo.com> 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