From: Thomas Singer Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:38:43 GMT Subject: Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters Message-ID: <4BF51133.6040504@syntevo.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF4F7D7.60002@drmicha.warpmail.net> On 20.05.2010 10:50, Michael J Gruber wrote: > There seems to be no way to reliably detect which one HFS+ uses. IIRC, HFS+ always stores and reports the file names with decomposed UTF-8, even if the file is created using composed UTF-8. IMHO, Git should standardize on the file and text encoding (e.g. commit messages) used in the repository, so such problems can't occur. SVN has standardized on "UTF-8" in the repository, but had/s similar problems on OS X with the decomposed characters: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464 Tom