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Re: [BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages

From
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date
May 28, 2021, 04:39 UTC
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On 28/05/21 03.50, Yuri wrote:
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> It's not clear from the conversation if git reads terminal capabilities 
> at all.
> 
> 
> But the default behavior, without any options set, should be to read 
> terminal capabilities, and write non-ASCII characters verbatim when 
> terminal supports this and escape them when terminal doesn't support them.
> 
> Current default behavior appears to be to always escape non-ASCII 
> characters.

So the current default is only supports ASCII, and escape other characters, right?

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  1. YuriMay 26, 2021
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2021
  3. YuriMay 26, 2021
  4. Torsten BögershausenMay 27, 2021
  5. Jeff KingMay 27, 2021
  6. YuriMay 27, 2021
  7. Bagas SanjayaMay 28, 2021
  8. YuriMay 28, 2021
  9. Torsten BögershausenMay 29, 2021
  10. Jeff KingMay 30, 2021
  11. YuriMay 30, 2021
  12. Thomas GuyotMay 31, 2021
  13. Bagas SanjayaMay 31, 2021
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2021

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