Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx

[Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:
>> 
>> >   lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p'
>> >   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='R'émi Leblond
>> 
>> So in C locale where each byte is supposed to be a single character,
>> that implementation of "sed" refuses to match a byte with high-bit
>> set when given a pattern '.'?
>> 
>> That is a surprising breakage, I would have to say.
>
> It should not be too surprising, since we discussed it a few months ago:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192218
>
> Thomas provided a gross but workable solution here:
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192237
>
> and we also talked about eventually having a shell-quoting mechanism for
> pretty placeholders.  Then the discussion rambled into "this sed is
> horribly broken, and the user should get a better sed" territory. Maybe
> we need to revisit that decision, since this is now two bug reports.

Three actually, also counting Will Palmer (shruggar) who brought this up
on #git-devel shortly before the thread above.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch