# Truncating file names with Unicode characters
When shortening file names that contain Unicode characters, git performs
truncation without awareness of two-byte characters. That often leads to
splitting a character in half and displaying a garbage byte that's left.
Unawareness of Unicode also means that filename length is calculated incorrectly
and some output gets misaligned.
I have tested this with git 2.14.1 on Windows and with git 2.11.0 on Linux. My
configuration includes setting `core.quotepath = off` to display Unicode paths.
# Example: `git log --stat`
## Bad output: half-characters and wrong text alignment
The last file name gets truncated in the middle of the character (`ˆ` is
what's left of it). Text alignment is off because string lengths are calculated
in bytes instead of characters.
Extension/README.md | 28 +++++++++
.../Catalog.Номенклатура.xml | 32 ++++++++++
.../Configuration.xml | 5 +-
...етПереработчика.ObjectModule.txt | 39 ++++++++++++
...cument.ОтчетПереработчика.xml | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../Enum.СтавкиНДС.xml | 24 ++++++++
...ˆирениеERPПотяркин_2018-06-05.cfe | Bin 0 -> 22018 bytes
7 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
## Good output with ASCII file names
Truncation and alignment are done right because each character is represented
by a single byte.
.../index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
docs/posts/2017/loops-in-power-query-m-language/index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
.../index.html | 7 +++++++
.../temporary-virtual-environment-for-python/index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
.../index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
docs/posts/2018/getting-started-with-libpq/index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
.../index.html | 14
++++++++++++++
.../2018/unit-testing-in-power-query-m-language/index.html | 7 +++++++
8 files changed, 98 insertions(+)
