{"thread":{"id":"27773","subject":"Strange characters","startedAt":"2011-07-07T19:15:31Z","lastAt":"2011-07-11T08:51:11Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["bryceadamprescott","Carlos Martín Nieto"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"170987","messageId":"1310066131287-6559596.post@n2.nabble.com","threadId":"27773","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Strange characters","fromName":"bryceadamprescott","fromEmail":"bryceadamprescott@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-07-07T19:15:31Z","receivedAt":"2011-07-07T19:15:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bryceadamprescott@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I've used subversion before but I've only used git a handful of times. At my\nnew job I am using git and me and my boss (who is also new to git) is having\na problem with UTF-8 characters. It seems that git is replacing some\ncharacters here and there with strange UTF-8 characters that display as a\nquestion mark in a diamond. Strangely enough the code still compiles with\nthousands of warnings about the UTF-8 characters. Any help would be\nappreciated.\n\n--\nView this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Strange-characters-tp6559596p6559596.html\nSent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.\n"},{"id":"171047","messageId":"20110711085111.GA6594@bee.lab.cmartin.tk","threadId":"27773","inReplyTo":"1310066131287-6559596.post@n2.nabble.com","subject":"Re: Strange characters","fromName":"Carlos Martín Nieto","fromEmail":"cmn@elego.de","sentAt":"2011-07-11T08:51:11Z","receivedAt":"2011-07-11T08:51:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"cmn@elego.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/335443?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:15:31PM -0700, bryceadamprescott wrote:\n> I've used subversion before but I've only used git a handful of times. At my\n> new job I am using git and me and my boss (who is also new to git) is having\n> a problem with UTF-8 characters. It seems that git is replacing some\n> characters here and there with strange UTF-8 characters that display as a\n> question mark in a diamond. Strangely enough the code still compiles with\n> thousands of warnings about the UTF-8 characters. Any help would be\n> appreciated.\n\nGit shouldn't modify the contents of the files at all (except for\nline-end if you ask it to). Could you provide a reproducible example\nof what's happening?\n\nCheers,\n   cmn"}]}