git-tfs/git-tfs — pull request #200 by aasmundeldhuset (2012-08-03 16:52:06+00:00)
Title: Add support for file names that contain international characters.

Greetings!

We are using git-tfs on our current project and are very happy with it! However, some of our file names contain Norwegian characters; when cloning and pulling from TFS, these filenames will become correct on disk, but incorrect in the git trees, thus causing git to always list the actual files as untracked. Since the filenames are stored as UTF-8 in the tree files in recent git versions, this patch fixes it and has worked well for us so far.

People who only use ASCII characters in their file names should be completely unaffected by this patch, since any string with only ASCII characters will become the same byte sequence in ASCII and UTF-8.