Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Thomas Singer
<thomas.singer@syntevo.com> wrote:
> Maximilien Noal wrote:
>> About the 'boxes' :
>>
>> The thing is, Windows' files for Asian languages are _not_ installed by
>> default.
>>
>> They can be installed (even while installing Windows), by checking the
>> two checkboxes under the "Supplemtal languages support" groupbox in the
>> "Languages" tab of the "Regional and language options" control panel.
>> *re-take some breath ;-) *
>>
>> It will remove the "boxes" in Explorer and display nice Asian characters.
>
> Thanks, now the characters are showing up fine in the Explorer.
>
> Reece Dunn wrote:
>> This is a bug in git's character encoding/conversion logic. It looks
>> like git is taking the source string and converting it to ascii to be
>> displayed on the console output (e.g. by using the WideCharToMultiByte
>> conversion API) -- these APIs will use a '?' character for characters
>> that it cannot map to the target character encoding (like the Hiragana
>> characters that you are using).
>
> I have a screenshot from a SmartGit user where 1) the console can show the
> far-east-characters and 2) Git *can* show the characters escaped. Are there
> two versions of Git available or does Gits behaviour depends somehow on the
> system locale?

Did you try to make sure your console window used a Unicode font on
your German Windows installation? Asian Windows installations might do
this by default, something at least neither English nor Norwegian
Windows installations seems to do...

You can change the console window font through the properties-menu
that appears when you right click the title-bar.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund