Re: OS X and umlauts in file names

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Thomas Singer
<thomas.singer@syntevo.com> wrote:
> I can't simply tunnel the file name as byte array to the
> invoked Git command - I simply don't know how to transform the characters of
> the file name to a representation the Git command line client will
> understand[2].

Ouch - so git is respecting whatever name the user and/or OS have
picked, but Java wants to canonicalize it,  and whatever scheme it
uses does not match OSX? That must hurt Java usage on OSX a lot. Sure
they have a workaround...?

Suggestions:

1 - Configure Java to canonicalize in the same style as OSX. Actually,
OSX's canonicalization is somewhat arbitrary so I think it exposes a
call to canonicalize a string "the right way".

2 - Many git calls accept filenames via STDIN - Java will surely write
binary there...

3 - xargs with its -z parameter can complement #2

hth,


m
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