Git Bash showing files with non-ASCII characters as modified

Question

I've just setup a new machine with a clean install of Windows 7, Git Extensions (2.32) which also installs msysGit 1.7.10.

Once I clone our local repo like so...:
git clone "Y:\SomeRepo"

... Running a git status shows a series of files as being modified, even though I've just cloned the repo. All of the files include non-ASCII characters like Æ, Ø and Å. Interestingly, there are four others in the team, also running Win7 with the same Git Extensions and msysGit version, and we've never run into the issue.

core.autocrlf is false, just as quotepath is off. All of these files are .png's so I don't think line ending conversion is an issue.

Any tips on where to start debugging/fixing this issue?

Answer 1

You probably have committed the files with non-ASCII names with a non-Unicode Git for Windows version and need to follow these instructions. As to why some of your teammates do not see this, maybe they are using a different locale on their Windows machines.