{"thread":{"id":"42740","subject":"Git Gui 0.20 messes up UTF-8 author names when amending a commit","startedAt":"2016-06-29T05:58:33Z","lastAt":"2016-06-29T05:58:33Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Roessner Silvester SGD AS-ER/QMM1 *"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"290456","messageId":"52E1627956F20E458D872C5961027EDC654FE17C@SGDS00759.zf-lenksysteme.net","threadId":"42740","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git Gui 0.20 messes up UTF-8 author names when amending a commit","fromName":"Roessner Silvester SGD AS-ER/QMM1 *","fromEmail":"silvester.roessner@bosch.com","sentAt":"2016-06-29T05:56:23Z","receivedAt":"2016-06-29T05:58:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"silvester.roessner@bosch.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nfirst I want to thank all involved in developing git.\nIt is really one of the - no! - it is the greatest tool I ever worked with!\n\nSo I want to help improving it at least with this bug report.\n\nSince git version 2.9.0 git git-gui messes up my author name\n- which contains UTF-8 characters: Silvester Rößner -\nwhen I amend a commit.\n\nWhen I do the same with git-bash it's all ok.\n\ngit log after first amend:\n\n    $ git log\n    commit 8ac8115c3af04bd8f5171452141398b0cfb57f87\n    Author: Silvester RöÃ?ner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>\n    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:46 2016 +0200\n\n        asdf\n\n    commit ae34f23a9a3d7f673ad3ed57dbea5af302d4f0c1\n    Author: Silvester Rößner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>\n    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:21 2016 +0200\n\n    test\n\n\ngit log after second amend:\n\n    $ git log\n    commit 9240372e8e7336a2c523f27a75b3ac4e07315039\n    Author: Silvester RÃ?¶Ã??ner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>\n    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:46 2016 +0200\n\n        asdf\n\n    commit ae34f23a9a3d7f673ad3ed57dbea5af302d4f0c1\n    Author: Silvester Rößner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>\n    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:21 2016 +0200\n\n        test\n\n\nTo reproduce the bug\n\n    1. create an empty repo,\n    2. set up the author name to \"Silvester Rößner\"\n    3. commit a file with git gui\n    4. amend the commit with git gui\n\nI use this version\n\n    git-gui version 0.20.GITGUI\n    git version 2.9.0.windows.1\n\n    Tcl/Tk version 8.6.5\n\nThe versions I used before just work great!\n\nMit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards\n\nSilvester Rößner\n\nAutomotive Steering, Electric Power Steering Rack, Quality Processes & Engineering (AS-ER/QMM1)\nRobert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH | 73527 Schwäbisch Gmünd | GERMANY | www.bosch-automotive-steering.com\nTel. +49 7171 31-4120 | Fax +49 7171 31-64120 | silvester.roessner@bosch.com\n\n--\nRobert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH, Richard-Bullinger-Str. 77, 73527 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany\nVorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dirk Hoheisel\nGeschäftsführung/Management Board: Christian Sobottka (Vorsitz/Chairman), Hanns Bernd Ketteler, Marcus Parche, Henning Wagner\nSitz der Gesellschaft/Headquarters: Schwäbisch Gmünd - Handelsregistereintrag: Amtsgericht Ulm HRB 701678/Trade register of the municipal court of Ulm HRB 701678\n"}]}