Hi everybody, I have a repository where some files and folders contain accented characters due to being in French. Such names include "rêve" (dream), "réunion" (meeting) etc.
Whether already in version control or not, git tools only show their *decomposed* representation (I use a UTF-8 locale, see below), but don't accept those representations as input (and auto-completion is broken for those), which is a bit misleading (test case follows). I've seen the threads about accented characters on OSX and the use of 'core.precomposeunicode', but as I'm running on GNU/Linux I thought this shouldn't apply. Since I've already had a problem in git with a weirdly encoded character (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269710), I wanted to get some feedback to determine whether my setup was the cause of it or if it was normal to see decomposed file names in git. I found in man git-status: > If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable > characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string > literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with > interior special characters backslash-escaped. So do everybody using accented characters see those in decomposed form in git? And if so why some softwares built on top of it (like gitit [1]) don't inherit those decomposed representations? [1] http://gitit.net/ Thanks! --- 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" $ git add . $ git commit -m "accent test" [master (root commit) 0d776b7] accent test 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 "r\303\251union" create mode 100644 "r\303\252ve" $ git log --summary commit 0d776b7a09d5384a76066999431507018e292efe Author: Bastien Traverse <bastien@traverse.email> Date: 2015-06-22 14:13:46 +0200 accent test create mode 100644 "r\303\251union" create mode 100644 "r\303\252ve" $ mv rêve reve $ git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) deleted: "r\303\252ve" Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) reve no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") $ git add [[TAB-TAB]] "r\303\252ve" reve $ git add "[[TAB]] --> git add "\"r\\303\\252ve\"" fatal: pathspec '"r\303\252ve"' did not match any files $ git add "r\303\252ve" fatal: pathspec 'r\303\252ve' did not match any files $ git add rêve reve OR git add . $ git status On branch master Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) renamed: "r\303\252ve" -> reve I'm running an up-to-date Arch linux with following software versions and locale config: $ uname -a Linux xxx 4.0.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 6 18:37:49 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.39(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) $ git --version git version 2.4.3 $ locale LANG=fr_FR.utf8 LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.utf8 LC_TIME=fr_FR.utf8 LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.utf8" LC_PAPER=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NAME="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ALL= $ localectl System Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF8 VC Keymap: fr X11 Layout: fr X11 Variant: oss Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
