Subject: Re: OS X and umlauts in file names

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:43:54 +0100

Thomas Singer <[email-masked]> writes:

> I've did following:
>
>  toms-mac-mini:git-umlauts tom$ ls
>  Überlänge.txt
>  toms-mac-mini:git-umlauts tom$ git status
>  # On branch master
>  #
>  # Initial commit
>  #
>  # Changes to be committed:
>  #   (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)
>  #
>   #	new file:   "U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt"
>  #
>  toms-mac-mini:git-umlauts tom$ git stage "U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt"
>  fatal: pathspec 'U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt' did not match any files

Try $'U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt' instead.
"U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt" is the same as
"U\\314\\210berla\\314\\210nge.txt" to the shell.

Andreas.

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