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Subject: zipball utf8 encoding error
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:26:33 -0400
From: peff (GitHub Staff) 
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From: peff (GitHub Staff)
Subject: zipball utf8 encoding error

This is an issue in upstream git. It does not know anything about 
the encoding of pathnames in stored trees, so it reproduces them 
literally when generating a zipfile. Further complicating this is 
that there is a standard for specifying the encoding of the zipfile 
pathnames, but not all zip implementations seem to respect the 
standard.  There are some discussions of possible fixes on the git 
list, but no patches yet:

The git list thread is here, if you are interested:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/203272

The discussion there has stalled, so I'll see if I can prod it 
forward.  Once there is a patch, we can look at applying it to our 
servers at GitHub.

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