Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

2015-06-22 Thread Bastien Traverse
Le 22/06/2015 17:04, Charles Bailey a écrit : Note that these aren't decomposed (in the unicode decomposition sense) but are merely octal escaped representations of the utf-8 encoded file names. Thanks, I had read that term in similar context (German umlaut) and thought it was correctly

Re: [Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

2015-06-22 Thread Charles Bailey
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Bastien Traverse wrote: 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

[Question] Is it normal for accented characters to be shown as decomposed Unicode on GNU/Linux?

2015-06-22 Thread Bastien Traverse
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