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-rw-r--r--doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn6
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
index efde1c9a3..d6dc6ca3c 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/problems_with_utf8_names.mdwn
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ It looks like the common latin1-to-UTF8 encoding. Functionality other than otupu
> One other possible
> issue would be that this could cause problems if git-annex were
> translated.
+> > On second thought, I switched to this. Any decoding of a filename
+> > is going to make someone unhappy; the previous approach broke
+> > non-utf8 filenames.
----
diff --git a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
index 60f35eec8..da40118d5 100644
--- a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn
@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ of filename encodings. In particular,
git-annex's behavior is unlikely to improve much until haskell's
support for utf8 filenames improves. --[[Joey]]
+
+> [[done]] -- I just turned off all encoding handling on stdout and stderr,
+> which avoids these problems nicely. Git-annex now displays just what it
+> input, at least on platforms where haskell does not decode unicode in
+> FilePaths. This will later be a problem when it gets localized, but for
+> now works great. --[[Joey]]