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=== Issues with APL characters in filenames ===

Although Git can deal with Unicode characters, by default it will print non-ASCII file names in quoted octal notation.

For example, the filename <code>∆UCMD.aplf</code> is represented as <code>\342\210\206UCMD.aplf</code> – the three numbers are octal numbers for the three bytes required to represent the <code>∆</code> character.

Now, this is not practical for an APLer, since characters like the del symbol or the quad symbol might well be used for filenames.

Luckily, this can be addressed:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
git config core.quotepath off
</syntaxhighlight>

This changes the settings for the current repository so that <code>∆UCMD.aplf</code> (unquoted) is returned.

More likely, you want to set it for all your repositories:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
git config --global core.quotepath off
</syntaxhighlight>

Note that your console might use a font that does not support Unicode. This is the case on Windows, for example.

In that case, change the console font to a TrueType font such as Lucida Console or Consolas or "APL385 Unicode".

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