From: Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows
Message-ID: <4B154560.1020806@syntevo.com>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e0912010750m4518f068s9c955042307bf9fe@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> 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