Re: On pathnames

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jan 25, 2008, 12:50 UTC
Message-ID: <85odbaoyqp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801251137030.5731@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> it seems that for some strange reason, "git add Märchen" puts the
> mangled filename into the index, even if "echo Märchen" shows the
> unmangled filename.

echo is likely a shell builtin. So "git add Märchen" goes through exec while echo doesn't.

What does /bin/echo Märchen yield?

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