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From: Bastien Traverse <bastien@traverse.email>
Subject: Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as
 decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:13:40 +0200
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Le 22/06/2015 17:04, Charles Bailey a =E9crit :
> Note that these aren't "decomposed" (in the unicode decomposition
> sense) but are merely octal escaped representations of the utf-8
> encoded file names.

Thanks, I had read that term in similar context (German umlaut) and
thought it was correctly describing the phenomenon. Key words "octal
escape" return more precise results :)

> My understanding that this is normal and probably dates back (at leas=
t
> for status as far as:
>=20
> 	commit a734d0b10bd0f5554abb3acdf11426040cfc4df0
> 	Author: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
> 	Date:   Fri Mar 7 05:30:58 2008 +0300
>=20
> 	Make private quote_path() in wt-status.c available as
> quote_path_relative()
>=20
> 	[...]
>=20
> The behaviour can be changed by setting the git config variable
> "core.quotePath" to false.

This is awesome, thank you. Indeed I just tried my test case with this
config option set to false and accented characters appear normally.

Thank you!