From: Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:57:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B14DA78.70906@syntevo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911282100.23000.j6t@kdbg.org>
Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 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.
Who is interpreting the file names? Windows or Git or Java?
--
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-01 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-28 18:15 non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows Thomas Singer
2009-11-28 20:00 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-12-01 8:57 ` Thomas Singer [this message]
2009-12-01 9:04 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 10:08 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-12-01 16:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-12-01 22:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-11-28 23:07 ` Maximilien Noal
2009-11-29 9:18 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 7:49 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 8:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-12-01 8:55 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 10:00 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-12-01 12:08 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 13:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-12-01 15:41 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-01 15:50 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-12-01 16:33 ` Thomas Singer
2010-10-30 4:02 ` brad12
2010-10-30 8:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-12-01 17:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-12-01 18:55 ` Thomas Singer
2009-12-02 16:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-30 9:52 ` demerphq
2009-12-01 9:12 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-12-01 12:11 ` Thomas Singer
2009-11-28 23:37 ` Reece Dunn
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