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git-gui messes up the diff view on non ASCII characters

From
PBPeter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20071109154935.GC28800@xp.machine.xx>

I'm managing some UTF-8 encoded LaTeX files in git, which include some non ASCII characters like the german ä,ö and ü. If I view the diff with git-diff on an UTF8 enabled terminal, all looks nice. So does the diff view in gitk after I commited my changes. Only git-gui shows some "strange" characters, so I assume it is an encoding problem.

I have to admit that I'm totally unaware how this should work, but at least I think my configuration is correct here, because otherwise git-diff or gitk would show the same behaviour. Is there anything which could be done to make git-gui happy, too?

-Peter
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