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diff --git a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn index 26f600be4..60f35eec8 100644 --- a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn @@ -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, |