Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Bastien Traverse wrote:

test case:
$ mkdir accent-test && cd !$
$ git init
$ touch rêve réunion
$ git status
On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

	"r\303\251union"
	"r\303\252ve"

Note that these aren't "decomposed" (in the unicode decomposition
sense) but are merely octal escaped representations of the utf-8
encoded file names.

My understanding that this is normal and probably dates back (at least
for status as far as:

	commit a734d0b10bd0f5554abb3acdf11426040cfc4df0
	Author: Dmitry Potapov [off-list ref]
	Date:   Fri Mar 7 05:30:58 2008 +0300

	Make private quote_path() in wt-status.c available as
quote_path_relative()

	[...]

The behaviour can be changed by setting the git config variable
"core.quotePath" to false.