# Strange characters

2 messages from 2011-07-07 to 2011-07-11. Participants: bryceadamprescott, Carlos Martín Nieto.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27773

## bryceadamprescott, 2011-07-07 19:15

Subject: Strange characters
Message-ID: <1310066131287-6559596.post@n2.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1310066131287-6559596.post%40n2.nabble.com

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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.

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## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2011-07-11 08:51

Subject: Re: Strange characters
Message-ID: <20110711085111.GA6594@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20110711085111.GA6594%40bee.lab.cmartin.tk
In-Reply-To: <1310066131287-6559596.post@n2.nabble.com>

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