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Hemant
Hemant

Reputation: 4616

git clone corrupting files which contains asian (UTF8) characters

I have uploaded a repository from Mac to git server where repository was having html files with Asian characters, now when I am cloning the same repository in Windows7, the html files are showing corrupt data, while I can see on the gitweb that files on git server are good one. Any idea, what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?

Following is my git config

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
    hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
    autocrlf = false
    quotepath = off
[alias]
    st = status

[i18n]
    logoutputencoding = utf8
    commitencoding = utf8

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1216

Answers (1)

kostix
kostix

Reputation: 55573

"Server-side" Git is not interested in the contents of your files -- it does not even know they exist as it operates on opaque blobs of data which clients send it.

Moreover "client-side" Git does not touch your files either unless clean/smudge filters are in place and/or EOL-conversion is enabled (which has nothing to do with encodings anyway so does not apply).

Hence I'm with @joahim-sauer on this matter — supposedly your problem is in interpretation. Note that Windows Notepad looks at BOMs to know files are UTF-8, and you won't convince it a file is UTF-8 unless the file contains BOM, and many files doesn't (and many people think they shouldn't, ever).

Upvotes: 3

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