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* put in utf8 forcing workaroundGravatar Joey Hess2011-03-08
| | | | | | | | | Haskell's IO layer crashes on characters > 255 when in a non-unicode (latin1) locale. Until Haskell gets better behavior, put in an admittedly ugly workaround for that: git-annex forces utf8 output mode no matter what locale is selected. So if you use a non-utf8 locale, your filenames with characters > 127 will not be displayed as you'd expect. But at least it won't crash.
* updateGravatar Joey Hess2011-03-08
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* Fix display of unicode filenames.Gravatar Joey Hess2011-02-10
Internally, the filenames are stored as un-decoded unicode. I tried decoding them, but then haskell tries to access the wrong files. Hmm. So, I've unhappily chosen option "B", which is to decode filenames before they are displayed.