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Joey Hess 2012-02-02 10:31:56 -04:00
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@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ the encoding of `RawFilePath` is not specified), this means changing
essentially all of git-annex. Even the filenames used for keys in
`.git/annex/objects` need to use the new data type. --[[Joey]]
> Actually it may not be that bad. A `RawFilePath` contains only bytes,
> so it can be cast to a string, containing encoded characters. That
> string can then be 1) output in binary mode or 2) manipulated
> in ways that do not add characters larger than 255, and cast back to
> a `RawFilePath`. While not type-safe, such casts should at least
> help during bootstrapping, and might allow for a quick fix that only
> changes to `RawFilePath` at the edges.
**As a stopgap workaround**, I have made a branch `unicode-only`. This
makes git-annex work with unicode filenames with ghc 7.4, but *only*
unicode filenames. If you have filenames with some other encoding, you're