On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:47:10AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> And that isn't going to change. It's the only sane way to do 
> locale-independent names: people can *choose* to see the filenames as some 
> UTF-8 sequence, or a series of Latin1, or anything, but that's not 
> something git itself will care about.

Unfortunately, to agree on a single encoding for different systems is
even more difficult than agreeing on a single end-of-line encoding.
OTOH, it is not a real issue as long as anyone use ASCII names only.

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> Trying to involve locale in name comparison simply isn't possible.

Agreed. However, the proper solution would be that all filenames are
stored in UTF-8, so conversation is done when a file is added to the
index. But that requires a lot of work, and as I said before, I doubt
that many people really want to store files with non-ASCII names, after
all, Git is a developer tool. So, as far as I am concern, it does not
worth efforts.

Dmitry
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