From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:26:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYwuo0vXUj2ZWPHihZFpvwao+G8nWTEiBFFUm2xWdd5nQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1327184934.31804.32.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote:
> 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.