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

From: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Date: Nov 9, 2007, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <200711092230.37905.barra_cuda@katamail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071109154935.GC28800@xp.machine.xx>

On Friday 09 November 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> 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?

It's a known issue, and already on Shawn's ToDo list. I have to add that viewing untracked UTF8 files in git-gui works just fine. Weird.