Hi,
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
This is very true.
I'll shut up now if you can answer me one question, because it
really is a problem for my team.
We have people using windows, people using Macs, and people using
several flavors of Linux desktops. They all have different settings
and if I add a file like áéióú that happens to be UTF-8 encoded, it
will reach a iso-latin-1 user as visual garbage. git will track the
file perfectly, we know that, because the sequence of bytes that my
system used to create the file will be the same on all "sane"
systems, but the file will look "funny" to some users, and we get
complaints for some less enlightened ones.
The answer is that users should not create filenames with non-ascii
characters if they want a consistent experience, right?
This is just so that I can write a best practices document to them...
Best regards,
--
Pedro Melo
Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/
XMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org
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