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What DVCS support Unicode filenames?


See issue 80 in the same repository. In 2009, there was a discussion on the Git Mailing list (e.g. 1, 2) where the Git maintainer Junio Hamano asked some questions regarding this. I don't have it right here. By joining the thread in a constructive manner you might help in resolving the issue.

In the Java implementation JGit, we always use UTF-8 when we create textual metadata and filenames. That is the only way, but there are some things to consider.


Bazaar VCS works with unicode filenames internally. And it has very good support for unicode both on Linux and Windows.


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August 2009:

The msysgit project is busy fixing UTF-8 support for Git on Windows. It might be fixed in the next release.


Update February 2012

UTF-8 is coming for msysgit, with commits like this one "Update less settings for UTF-8 "

From the Git for Windows Google+ page:

Karsten Blees' UTF-8 patches for Git for Windows has now been merged to 'devel'.
This means the upcoming release will support Unicode filenames!


Update April 2012

It's now released in mSysGit 1.7.10.

See the page Git for Windows Unicode Support.