Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

From: Bastien Traverse <bastien@traverse.email>
Date: Jun 22, 2015, 16:13 UTC
Message-ID: <55883434.8040406@traverse.email>
In-Reply-To: <20150622150428.GA14100@hashpling.org>

Le 22/06/2015 17:04, Charles Bailey a écrit :

> Note that these aren't "decomposed" (in the unicode decomposition
> sense) but are merely octal escaped representations of the utf-8
> encoded file names.

Thanks, I had read that term in similar context (German umlaut) and thought it was correctly describing the phenomenon. Key words "octal escape" return more precise results :)

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> My understanding that this is normal and probably dates back (at least
> for status as far as:
> 
> 	commit a734d0b10bd0f5554abb3acdf11426040cfc4df0
> 	Author: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
> 	Date:   Fri Mar 7 05:30:58 2008 +0300
> 
> 	Make private quote_path() in wt-status.c available as
> quote_path_relative()
> 
> 	[...]
> 
> The behaviour can be changed by setting the git config variable
> "core.quotePath" to false.

This is awesome, thank you. Indeed I just tried my test case with this config option set to false and accented characters appear normally.

Thank you!