Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

On 20 May 2010 10:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:26, Matthias Moeller
[off-list ref] wrote:

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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?

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#       "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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