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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:00:22 +0100
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On Samstag, 28. November 2009, Thomas Singer wrote:
> I've created a file with unicode characters in its name (using Java):
>
>  new File(dir, "\u3041\u3042\u3043\u3044").createNewFile();
>...
> $ git add .
> fatal: unable to stat '????': No such file or directory
>
> What should I do to make Git recognize these characters?

You cannot on a German Windows.

You can switch your Windows to Japanese (not the UI, just the codepage 
aka "locale"; yes, that's possible, I have such a setup), but even then the 
characters of the file name will be recorded in Shift-JIS encoding, not UTF-8 
or Unicode. When you later switch back to German, these bytes will be 
interpreted as cp850 or cp1252 text and displayed accordingly.

-- Hannes