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diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index 625d3154ea..2dd79db5cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -1,23 +1,36 @@ -At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic. - - - The pathnames recorded in the index and in the tree objects - are treated as uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes. - What readdir(2) returns are what are recorded and compared - with the data git keeps track of, which in turn are expected - to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such - thing as pathname encoding translation. +Git is to some extent character encoding agnostic. - The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core level. - - The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL - bytes. + - Path names are encoded in UTF-8 normalization form C. This + applies to tree objects, the index file, ref names, as well as + path names in command line arguments, environment variables + and config files (`.git/config` (see linkgit:git-config[1]), + linkgit:gitignore[5], linkgit:gitattributes[5] and + linkgit:gitmodules[5]). ++ +Note that Git at the core level treats path names simply as +sequences of non-NUL bytes, there are no path name encoding +conversions (except on Mac and Windows). Therefore, using +non-ASCII path names will mostly work even on platforms and file +systems that use legacy extended ASCII encodings. However, +repositories created on such systems will not work properly on +UTF-8-based systems (e.g. Linux, Mac, Windows) and vice versa. +Additionally, many Git-based tools simply assume path names to +be UTF-8 and will fail to display other encodings correctly. + + - Commit log messages are typically encoded in UTF-8, but other + extended ASCII encodings are also supported. This includes + ISO-8859-x, CP125x and many others, but _not_ UTF-16/32, + EBCDIC and CJK multi-byte encodings (GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, + EUC-x, CP9xx etc.). Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded -in UTF-8, both the core and git Porcelain are designed not to +in UTF-8, both the core and Git Porcelain are designed not to force UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular -project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git +project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, Git does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. |