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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 18:23:13 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 18:23:13 -0400
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@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ Currenty, git-annex forces output, particularly of filenames, in a utf-8
locale.
Note that this does not mean it cannot be used with filenames in other
-encodings. It just displays their names always converted to utf-8, which
-may not look right when you have a non-utf8 locale.
+encodings. git-annex is entirely encoding agnostic when it comes to
+manipulating filenames. It just *displays* their names always converted to
+utf-8, which may not look right when you have a non-utf8 locale.
This had to be done to work around some bugs with haskell's handling
of filename encodings. In particular,