From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 06:33:50 GMT Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx Message-ID: <7v62bc97w1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120531011911.GC5488@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >> So in C locale where each byte is supposed to be a single character, >> that implementation of "sed" refuses to match a byte with high-bit >> set when given a pattern '.'? >> >> That is a surprising breakage, I would have to say. > > It should not be too surprising, since we discussed it a few months ago: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192218 Heh, no wonder I do not recall that one, as everything happened and conclusions reached while I was sleeping ;-) If it is not a bug in platform-sanctioned sed, but a buggy third-party build, then I wouldn't worry about it for this cycle, but pre-release freeze might be a good time to start sketching Thomas's --format="%'%an <%ae>%'" approach, perhaps?