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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: BUG: "git add --interactive" does not work with UTF-8 filenames
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 22:32:03 +0300
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I just learnt that "git add --interactive" does not work with UTF-8 
encoded filenames. Maybe it's about all 8-bit characters.

The menu invoked with command

  git add -i <file>

does not even show this <file> if the name contains UTF-8 characters. 
Command and menu

  git add -i

shows the file but nothing can be done with it. Neither "patch" 
nor "update" does work, for example.


As a side note/rant: Git tends to show non-Ascii characters in filenames 
as \xxx escape sequences. It's not a big problem but surely it's not 
very nice to read if (say) half of the word's letters are escaped like 
this. I believe Git is mostly used for tracking source codes where 
Ascii-only filenames are a common practice. I'm using Git to develop 
Finnish spell-checking system (called Voikko) and we have some 
non-Ascii filenames in the repo.