Issues:
- Using ls in GIT shows all unicode in filenames as '?' (i.e. ???.mp3).
- When using git add -A the following error is returned: "fatal: unable to stat 'example/???.mp3': no such file or directory"
Is there a solution to this?
Thanks.
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whamsicore
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What operating system and which git is this on? On windows and using msysgit I have the same issue as well. – prusswan Nov 27 '11 at 08:21
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1@prusswan: The fact that the OP mentioned using `ls` "in GIT" pretty well implies windows/msysgit. – Cascabel Nov 27 '11 at 08:48
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Yeah, I am using windows. MINGW32. – whamsicore Nov 27 '11 at 09:26
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when did `ls` become a command in windows? but I digress – prusswan Nov 27 '11 at 11:57
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See also http://stackoverflow.com/q/830016/60075 – Craig McQueen Nov 27 '11 at 23:31
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See also http://stackoverflow.com/q/5854967/11343 – CharlesB Apr 27 '12 at 13:21
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As of MSysGit 1.7.10 (the latest version at this time), Unicode is correctly supported on Windows, at the condition you tweak some settings and use a truetype font in the console.
See explanations here, including how to deal with previous repositories.
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Msysgit doesn't have support for non-ASCII characters in filenames. See its issue 80 for details.
Consider using Cygwin's git package instead, which does have full UTF-8 support.
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3Just to emphasise this - since 1.7.10, msysGit DOES support Unicode filenames. – patthoyts Apr 27 '12 at 13:28
