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Strange characters

Subject: Strange characters

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2 messages between Jul 7, 2011 and Jul 11, 2011.

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bryceadamprescott· Jul 7, 2011, 19:15 UTC · lore

I've used subversion before but I've only used git a handful of times. At my new job I am using git and me and my boss (who is also new to git) is having a problem with UTF-8 characters. It seems that git is replacing some characters here and there with strange UTF-8 characters that display as a question mark in a diamond. Strangely enough the code still compiles with thousands of warnings about the UTF-8 characters. Any help would be appreciated.

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Carlos Martín Nieto· Jul 11, 2011, 08:51 UTC · re: bryceadamprescott · lore

Re: Strange characters

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:15:31PM -0700, bryceadamprescott wrote:

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> I've used subversion before but I've only used git a handful of times. At my
> new job I am using git and me and my boss (who is also new to git) is having
> a problem with UTF-8 characters. It seems that git is replacing some
> characters here and there with strange UTF-8 characters that display as a
> question mark in a diamond. Strangely enough the code still compiles with
> thousands of warnings about the UTF-8 characters. Any help would be
> appreciated.

Git shouldn't modify the contents of the files at all (except for line-end if you ask it to). Could you provide a reproducible example of what's happening?

Cheers,
   cmn