From: Peter Karlsson Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:37:17 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: 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. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/