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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.227"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2013-12-31T18:03:34Z"
+ content="""
+You forgot to include
+
+* A version number
+* An error message
+* A way to reproduce the problem.
+
+Without this information, I cannot help you, except to say that git-annex is very careful not to care at all about the contents or encoding of filenames and has been used with a wide variety of filenames, including all characters you listed, without any known problems.
+"""]]