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

Le 22/06/2015 17:04, Charles Bailey a écrit :

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

Thanks, I had read that term in similar context (German umlaut) and
thought it was correctly describing the phenomenon. Key words "octal
escape" return more precise results :)

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.

This is awesome, thank you. Indeed I just tried my test case with this
config option set to false and accented characters appear normally.

Thank you!