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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [msysGit] Re: Weird filename encoding issue
From:       Peter Krefting <peter () softwolves ! pp ! se>
Date:       2008-10-27 8:08:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0810270904490.18631 () ds9 ! cixit ! se
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Robin Rosenberg:

> Git (or msys) under windows is somewhat stupid here as it involves
> the eight-bit locale despite running in a unicode OS. To get UTF-8 on
> XP you can set the codepage to UTF-8 (called 65001 in windows).

That presents itself with a lot of other issues, however, as the
char-based file APIs were only designed to handle up to double-byte
characters. To implement proper Unicode file name support on Windows,
one need to use the "wide" APIs (using wchar_t).

Using those APIs, it does not matter what locale the system is set to.
Everything is then UTF-16, which is trivially converted to and from
UTF-8 (and there are even native APIs to do it if one can't be bothered
to write code for it).

I have been meaning to check out a copy of the Msysgit source tree and
see how difficult it would be to replace the file API layer with proper
Unicode support, but time keeps fleeing from me, so I never seem to get
around to :-/

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