Re: [BUG] Unicode filenames handling in `git log --stat`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2022, 05:55 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsfm4prqk.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20220809182045.568598-1-calvinwan@google.com>

Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com> writes:

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> Hi Alexander,
>
> Thank you for the report! I attempted to reproduce with the steps you
> provided, but was unable to do so. What commands would I have to run
> on a clean git repository to reproduce this?

Sounds like a symptom observable when the width computed by utf8.c::git_gcwidth(), using the width table imported from unicode.org, and the width the terminal thinks each of the displayed character has, do not match (e.g. seen when ambiguous characters are involved, https://unicode.org/reports/tr11/#Ambiguous).

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