From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:25:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/i18n.txt: clarify character encoding support Message-ID: <5594CB33.7020108@web.de> In-Reply-To: <55943B37.40101@gmail.com> On 07/01/2015 09:10 PM, Karsten Blees wrote: > > Of course, it would be nice to hear other opinions as well - this > probably shouldn't be a discussion between the two of us :-) > > Karsten > I like this paragraf from your previous mail, I think it can go into i18n.txt "as is": ISO-8859-x file names may be fine if you won't ever need to: - use git-web, JGit, gitk, git-gui... - exchange repos with "normal" (UTF-8) Unices, Mac and Windows systems - publish your work on a git hosting service (and expect file and ref names to show up correctly in the web interface) - store the repo on Unicode-based file systems (JFS, Joliet, UDF, exFat, NTFS, HFS+, CIFS...)