Re: [BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages

On 5/30/21 2:44 PM, Jeff King wrote:

Yeah, I'm not sure how such a check would be done. On most Linux systems
I've seen, $LANG will mention "en_US.UTF-8" or similar. But I've no idea
how portable that convention is, not to mention that people may have
more complex setups anyway (e.g., not setting $LANG but setting some of
LC_*).

When 'locale charmap' prints 'UTF-8' the terminal can be assumed to be 
able to accept UTF-8 characters.

'locale charmap', I think, determines this only based on environment 
variables.



Yuri