From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:59:31 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Jonatan Holmgren writes: > Thanks for chiming in! > > > Isn't NKC/NKD a macOS-only issue in practice? Anything on the > > command line "git" potty and "git-blah" built-in commands receive > > goes through precompose_argv_prefix() to be normalized on that > > platform. > > If we use Jeff's proposed alias.*.{keyname} approach with literal byte > matching macOS should already handle the normalization at the argv level > before Git even sees it, correct? I'm not very familiar with how macOS > handles this. I may have phrased it poorly, but the above (with Peff's syntax change, which I think is independently a good thing to do) is exactly what I meant. That way, we do not have to worry about normalization ourselves at all in this area. Thanks.