What DVCS support Unicode filenames?

Question

I'm interested in trying out distributed version control systems. git sounds promising, but I saw a note somewhere for the Windows port of git that says "don't use non-ASCII filenames". I can't find that now, but there is this link. It's put me off git for now, but I don't know if the other options are any better.

Support for non-ASCII filenames is essential for my Japanese company. I'm looking for one that internally stores filenames as Unicode, not a platform-dependent encoding which would cause endless grief. So:

1. What DVCS support Unicode filenames?
2. In both Windows and Linux?
3. Ideally, with the possibility to transfer repositories between Windows and Linux machines with minimal issues?

Answer 1

See issue 80 in the same repository. In 2009, there was a discussion on the Git Mailing list (e.g. 1, 2) where the Git maintainer Junio Hamano asked some questions regarding this. I don't have it right here. By joining the thread in a constructive manner you might help in resolving the issue.

In the Java implementation JGit, we always use UTF-8 when we create textual metadata and filenames. That is the only way, but there are some things to consider.

Answer 2

Bazaar VCS works with unicode filenames internally. And it has very good support for unicode both on Linux and Windows.