Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

fredagen den 18 januari 2008 skrev Linus Torvalds:

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translation to UTF-8, and since we use C strings, I'd assume/hope Windows 
actually uses that unambiguous translation for any filenames).

It uses the local 8-bit codepage, which is not UTF-8, often some latin-inspired
thingy, but in Asia multi-byte encodings are used. In western Europe it is
Windows-1252, which is almost, but not exactly iso-8859-1. Oh, and then we
have the cmd prompt which has another encoding in 8-bit mode.

Well, if it uses a 8-bit codepage, then that means that as far as the 
POSIX filename interface is concerned, it has nothing what-so-ever to do 
with Unicode (ie unicode is just a totally invisible internal encoding 
issue, not externally visible).

I just had to investigate this a bit, so on a Vista machine I started a cmd
prompt and typed mode con: cp select=65001, selected the lucida font and then
echo å >x.txt and opened it in notepad and it was UTF-8 encoded. So there might
be some hope after all. I don't know how to change the encoding for non-console
apps. I leave that as an excercise for the list.

-- robin