Re: non-ascii filenames issue

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 6, 2009, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904061109330.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904060823400.21376@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Peter Krefting wrote:

> It comes from the Unix tradition, unfortunately, that file names are 
> just a stream of bytes, instead of a stream of characters mapped to a 
> byte sequence.

How is that different from .txt not having a defined locale?

Really, please, do not add to the non-information.

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> Since most people on Linux nowadays probably are running in a 
> UTF-8-based locale, I tried introducing some (very incomplete) patches 
> for the Windows port to make this assumption, to allow Windows users to 
> make use of non-ASCII file names (Windows uses Unicode strings for file 
> names). Mac OS uses (semi-decomposed) UTF-8 strings, so it should also 
> be able to make use of this.

Most Russian programmers I know do not run in a UTF-8 locale.

> Unfortunately, there seems to be quite some resistance towards deciding 
> on a platform- and language-independent way of storing file names in 
> Git, but rather just going the "Unix" way and making it someone elses 
> problem. I find this a bit sad.

I find it a bit unfair that you say that, after many people participated in that very informative thread, and after I tried to work with you personally on getting the stuff into 4msysgit.git.

Actually, not just only a bit.

Ciao, Dscho