Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:51:15AM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:

The problem with changing wchar_t is that_
it was defined to use 16-bit values at a time where Unicode was defined_
to use 16-bit code points (but they soon figured out that was not_
enough).

I do realize that is a problem, and unfortunately there is no easy and
quick fix to it. But you brought Windows as an example of good Unicode
support... Well, to my mind, it is not, at least, not for C programs.
You have two serious problems here:
1. wchar_t is too small to hold all Unicode characters as it is required
   by C standard.
2. UTF-8 support is broken in C runtime library.

In fact, if UTF-8 were supported by C runtime, we would not have this thread
in the first place... Now, it is possible to wrap all C functions used by Git to
make them work with UTF-8, but it is a lot of work...

Dmitry