From: Tobias Getzner <tobias.getzner@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:18:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Mojibake in git gui and gitk for certain unicode chars
Message-ID: <1421929102.22955.3.camel@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <1421927001.11296.27.camel@gmx.de>

On Do, 2015-01-22 at 12:43 +0100, Tobias Getzner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’ve noticed git gui and gitk seem to have problems decoding certain
> unicode characters. E.g., when a commit contains the character «👍»
> (thumbs up sign; U+1F44D) in UTF-8 encoding, this character will show
> as «ðŸ‘» in gitk. 

> I’ve noticed a perhaps related glitch when the options in git gui is
> shown. My committer name contains the character «ß» (latin small letter
> sharp s; U+00DF). The text field in the options dialog displays this as
> «ÃŸ»,

I suppose that some of the mojibake characters in the message might
have been stripped out of the message because they are control chars.
So, «👍» was rendered as «ð\x9f\x91\x8d». «ß» was rendered as «Ã\x9f».