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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
Dec 1, 2009, 16:33 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
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> Git uses the 8-bit file APIs, and Windows doesn't support setting
> UTF-8 as the locale. Some work have been done in msysGit to use
> _wopen() and friends instead, but AFAIK it's not completed. See the
> branch called "work/utf-filenames" in
> git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/4msysgit.git if you are interested in
> helping to complete it.
Thanks, now I understand.
-- 
Tom
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