From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Singer Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4B123C80.30607@syntevo.com> References: <4B1168D4.5010902@syntevo.com> <4B11AD43.3070307@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Maximilien Noal X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 29 10:19:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEfvp-0008RR-Lf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:19:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754266AbZK2JSt (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:18:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754223AbZK2JSt (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:18:49 -0500 Received: from syntevo.com ([85.214.39.145]:60117 "EHLO syntevo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754216AbZK2JSr (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:18:47 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id D980D37C7B4 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4B11AD43.3070307@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? -- Tom