How to handle Asian characters in file names in Git on OS X

Question

I\'m on US-English OS X 10.6.4 and try to store files with Asian characters in its name in a Git repository.

OK, let\'s create such a file in a Git working tree

Answer 1

Git quotes any non-ascii character by default, not only asian ones. There's an option to disable this quoting behaviour.

You can disable it using the following command:

git config --global core.quotepath false

Or, alternatively, by adding the following snippet to your git config file ($HOME/.gitconfig usually)

[core]
    quotepath = false

After this, git should show your filenames exactly as they are.

As to your other problem, git not adding a file with asian characters, I can only guess that it has to do with the encoding that git uses is not the same as the encoding your terminal uses. I hope someone else can jump in and explain that bit.