title: How to handle Asian characters in file names in Git on OS X
body: <p>I'm on US-English OS&nbsp;X 10.6.4 and try to store files with Asian characters in its name in a Git repository.</p>
  
  <p>OK, let's create such a file in a Git working tree:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ touch どうもありがとうミスターロボット.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Git is showing it as octal-escaped UTF-8 form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ git version
  git version 1.7.3.1
  $ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #   "\343\201\250\343\202\231\343\201\206\343\202\202\343\201\202\343\202\212\343\201\213\343\202\231\343\201\250\343\201\206\343\203\237\343\202\271\343\202\277\343\203\274\343\203\255\343\203\233\343\202\231\343\203\203\343\203\210.txt"
  nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, I'm not able to add it to the Git repository:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ git add どうもありがとうミスターロボット.txt
  $ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #   "\343\201\250\343\202\231\343\201\206\343\202\202\343\201\202\343\202\212\343\201\213\343\202\231\343\201\250\343\201\206\343\203\237\343\202\271\343\202\277\343\203\274\343\203\255\343\203\233\343\202\231\343\203\203\343\203\210.txt"
  nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Git simply ignored this file.</p>
  
  <p>Using wildcards work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ git add *.txt
  $ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Changes to be committed:
  #   (use "git rm --cached &lt;file&gt;..." to unstage)
  #
  #   new file:   "\343\201\250\343\202\231\343\201\206\343\202\202\343\201\202\343\202\212\343\201\213\343\202\231\343\201\250\343\201\206\343\203\237\343\202\271\343\202\277\343\203\274\343\203\255\343\203\233\343\202\231\343\203\203\343\203\210.txt"
  #
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I want to invoke the Git command from an application for a specific file name. I don't have the option to invent wildcard patterns which match exactly this file, but no one else.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a known bug of Git or me not using Git correctly?</p>