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diff --git a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn index 3c3fdd0ac..cb5917ef8 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ the encoding of `RawFilePath` is not specified), this means changing essentially all of git-annex. Even the filenames used for keys in `.git/annex/objects` need to use the new data type. --[[Joey]] +> Actually it may not be that bad. A `RawFilePath` contains only bytes, +> so it can be cast to a string, containing encoded characters. That +> string can then be 1) output in binary mode or 2) manipulated +> in ways that do not add characters larger than 255, and cast back to +> a `RawFilePath`. While not type-safe, such casts should at least +> help during bootstrapping, and might allow for a quick fix that only +> changes to `RawFilePath` at the edges. + **As a stopgap workaround**, I have made a branch `unicode-only`. This makes git-annex work with unicode filenames with ghc 7.4, but *only* unicode filenames. If you have filenames with some other encoding, you're |