Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

On 20 May 2010 10:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:26, Matthias Moeller
> <matthias.moeller@math.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> I have been searching the web for help and found lengthy discussions
>> which state that this is a common problem of the HFS+ filesystem.
>> What I did not find was a solution to this problem. Is there a solution
>> to this problem?
>
> Is this problem particular to Git, or do you also get it if you
> e.g. rsync from the Linux box to the Mac OS X box?
>
>> #       "U\314\210bersicht.xls"
>
> You probably have to configure your shell on OSX to render UTF-8
> correctly. It's just showing the raw escaped byte sequence instead of
> a character there.
>
> There isn't anything wrong with OSX in this case, filename encoding on
> any POSIX system is only done by convention. You'll find that you have
> similar problems on Linux if you encode filename in Big5 or
> UTF-32.
>
> Linux will happily accept it, but your shell / other applications will
> render it as unknown goo because they expect UTF-8.

Except that isnt a normalized utf8 representation of capital U umlaut,
code point U+00DC, (utf8 c3,9c), instead presumably it has been
decomposed into a captial U followed by a combining character to add
in the umlaut, which IMO is pretty weird.

As far as i can tell the filename:

"Übersicht.xls"

Should be stored in utf8 as:

"\303\234bersicht.xls"

Also minor nit. UTF-32, as it contains nuls for latin-1 chars would be
much much worse than utf8 :-)

cheers,
Yves

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