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📣 andrewfromx

Git status, fatal iconv_open why?


git status

fatal: iconv_open(UTF-8,UTF-8-MAC) failed, but needed:

    precomposed unicode is not supported.

    If you want to use decomposed unicode, run

    "git config core.precomposeunicode false"

  👤 stop50 Accepted Answer ✓
I cite the git documentation: This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions of Git
👤 andrewfromx
what do you think caused this? I was minding my own business in a normal repo then all of a sudden