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Re: [PATCH V4] git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 29, 2012, 16:26 UTC
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:36 +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> * (Not all Windows versions support UTF-8 yet:
>>    Msysgit needs the unicode branch, cygwin supports UTF-8 since 1.7)
>
> This might be overly pedantic, but Windows doesn't really deal with
> UTF-8. To use Unicode you need to use the "wide" variant of the
> functions, and those take UTF-16.

This is exactly what the 'unicode'-branch in msysGit does, so the comment is not incorrect at all.

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  1. git on Mac OS and precomposed unicodeTorsten Bögershausen, Jan 21, 2012
  2. Carlos Martín NietoJan 21, 2012
  3. Erik Faye-LundJan 29, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2012
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 22, 2012
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 22, 2012
  7. Torsten BögershausenJun 24, 2012
  8. Robin RosenbergJul 25, 2012
  9. Torsten BögershausenJan 29, 2012
  10. Torsten BögershausenJan 29, 2012

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