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From: Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
Subject: Re: non-US-ASCII file names (e.g. Hiragana) on Windows
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:04:32 +0100
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Thomas Singer wrote:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> 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?

To be more precise: Who is interpreting the bytes in the file names as
characters? Windows, Git or Java?

-- 
Tom