Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Jan 18, 2008, 15:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801181631150.817@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <20080118103036.GD14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov:

> because Microsoft C library does not work with encoding that requires
> more than two bytes per character.

Indeed. On Windows, you should avoid using UTF-8 and instead use UTF-16 everywhere. That usually works better, and if you run on an NT-based system it will convert all the data to WinAPI to UTF-16 anyway.

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