title: Git and the Umlaut problem on Mac OS X
body: <p>Today I discovered a bug for Git on Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X. </p>
  
  <p>For example, I will commit a file with the name überschrift.txt with the German special character Ü at the beginning. From the command <code>git status</code> I get following output.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Users-iMac: user$ git status
  
  On branch master
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #   "U\314\210berschrift.txt"
  nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems that Git 1.7.2 has a problem with German special characters on Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X.
  Is there a solution to get Git read the file names correct?</p>