Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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So in C locale where each byte is supposed to be a single character,
that implementation of "sed" refuses to match a byte with high-bit
set when given a pattern '.'?

That is a surprising breakage, I would have to say.

It should not be too surprising, since we discussed it a few months ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192218

Heh, no wonder I do not recall that one, as everything happened and
conclusions reached while I was sleeping ;-)

If it is not a bug in platform-sanctioned sed, but a buggy
third-party build, then I wouldn't worry about it for this cycle,
but pre-release freeze might be a good time to start sketching
Thomas's --format="%'%an <%ae>%'" approach, perhaps?