From: Jürgen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:57:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx
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On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:
>
> >   lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p'
> >   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='R'émi Leblond
>
> 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.

FWIW, the command above correctly returns GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Rémi
Leblond' for me on OS X 10.8.


Jürgen

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