From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Singer Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:41:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4B15391C.5090302@syntevo.com> References: <4B1168D4.5010902@syntevo.com> <4B11AD43.3070307@gmail.com> <4B123C80.30607@syntevo.com> <4B14CA79.6040408@syntevo.com> <4B14D381.3010706@viscovery.net> <4B14DA1A.4060505@syntevo.com> <4B14E934.9090304@viscovery.net> <4B150747.2030900@syntevo.com> <4B151782.8050309@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 01 16:41:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFUqO-0004pc-Ly for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:40:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753662AbZLAPkg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:40:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753573AbZLAPkg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:40:36 -0500 Received: from syntevo.com ([85.214.39.145]:53974 "EHLO syntevo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752827AbZLAPkf (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:40:35 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id CB44E37C7B0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4B151782.8050309@viscovery.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Sixt wrote: > Thomas Singer schrieb: >> I'm quite surprised, that -- as I >> understand you -- msys-Git (or Git at all?) is not able to handle all >> characters (aka unicode) at the same time. I expected it would be better >> than older tools, e.g. SVN. > > This has been discussed at length here and in the msysgit mailing list. > Git expects that the file system returns file names with the same byte > sequence that git used to create a file. On Windows, this works only as > long as you do not switch the codepage. Now you confuse me: is this a problem of Windows, Git using a less capable Windows-API call or is there no unicode-capable API call to list file names on Windows? I ask myself how Java does it in its internals, finally it (also) consists of a C-base, I guess. -- Tom