Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes: > On 10/15/10 06:38, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >> One of the key differences between quoting in gnulib and in git is that >> gnulib >> treats filenames as sequences of characters which may be multi-byte, while >> git >> treats them as sequences of bytes. >> >> I'm not sure about the reasoning behind ignoring multi-byte characters; >> maybe >> Paul or Junio can enlighten us. > > I can't speak for Jun, but I expect the answer is, "Don't worry > about stupid encodings". If you use a reasonable encoding like UTF-8, > git's quoting method works just like gnulib's does. I don't think diffutils > (or git) needs to worry about what happens to users who insist on using > those awful legacy encodings.
Thanks, well and enough said ;-)
