Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add routines for filenames encoding <local encoding> <-> UTF-8

From: Timur Sufiev <tsufiev@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 28, 2009, 07:15 UTC
Message-ID: <4ae7ef9d.0f1abc0a.5b53.1a73@mx.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910271515270.17168@ds9.cixit.se>

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>> If `i18n.filenameslocalencoding' option was set via git-config to a 
>> correct <codepage> encoding, 2 things should be done:
> 
> Windows supports UTF-16 file names, but need to use wchar_t APIs for fopen() 
> and friends. Have you looked at any of that?

No, I didn't look towards Windows handling of Unicode, because Git under
Windows works well enough without that: I've built Git in MinGW/MSYS
environmment (using the patches we're discussing) and it handles
cyrillic filenames in Windows ANSI CP1251 codepage just as was planned:
writes filenames to tree objects in UTF-8, checks out them into working
dir in CP1251, other stuff as git-clone, git-diff, git-status, etc also
works ok. One remaining issue (offtopic here, as far as I understand) to
make TortoiseGit work with UTF-8 Git's output.

> -- 
> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

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Timur Sufiev