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Joey Hess 2012-02-02 10:56:39 -04:00
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@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ This bug is reopened to track some new UTF-8 filename issues caused by GHC
encoding no longer works. Even unicode filenames fail to work when
git-annex is built with 7.4. --[[Joey]]
> What's going on exactly? The new ghc, when presented with
> a String of raw bytes like "fo\194\161", and asked to do
> something like `getSymbolicLinkStatus`, encodes it
> as unicode, yielding "fo\303\202\302\241". Which is
> not the same as the original filename.
The new ghc requires a new data type, `RawFilePath` be used if you
don't want to impose utf-8 filenames on your users. I have a `newghc` branch
in git where I am trying to convert it to use `RawFilePath`. However, since