[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="209.250.56.176" subject="comment 3" date="2014-05-27T18:02:11Z" content=""" I tried with that filename, and had no difficulty committing it.
oberon:repo joeyh$ git annex add George\'s\ Cafe\314\201 
add George's Café ok
(Recording state in git...)
oberon:repo joeyh$ git commit -m foo
[master (root-commit) 8acd5d4] foo
 Committer: Joey Hess 
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"
    git config --global user.email you@example.com

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 120000 \"George's Caf\303\251\"

I even tried running the assistant with all locale settings set to C, and it still had no problem adding and committing that filename. So, I need help reproducing this, or I need to see the error message you see when the problem happens to you. """]]