Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:39 PM, John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com> wrote:
>
> Now, the default when a program starts is to use the "C" locale.  The
> locale argument to setlocale can take a form ".code_page", so calling
>
>        setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ".65001");
>
> should do the trick.  Assuming, that is, that you don't hit macros that
> assume that characters are never multibyte.  So define the preprocessor
> symbol _MBCS when you compile.

If Microsoft fixed the problem with UTF-8 support in C runtime, it is
a really good
news, because setlocale did not work not so long time ago:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/03/13/550191.aspx

As to Win32 API, it has always worked correctly with UTF-8... In fact, the
documentation of GetOEMCP function goes as far as recommending
to use UTF-8 or UTF-16: "For the most consistent results, applications should
use Unicode, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16, instead of a specific code page.

So it would be great if Git supported UTF-8 on Windows (as an option), but it
is not my itch right now....

Dmitry