Re: Git messes up 'ø' character

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 20, 2015, 21:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20150120212049.GA22103@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX58Di=m2YEKRuAsuU=bqUXjQhN21tvjRL8Z1Vbuyk2fKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:45:46PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> What's happened here is that:
> 
>  1. You've authored your commit in ISO-8859-1
>  2. Git itself has no place for the encoding of the author name in the
> commit object format

Is (2) right? The "encoding" header in a commit object should apply not just to the commit message, but also to the author (and committer) name.

I think the real problem is simply that it defaults to UTF-8, but he is giving it iso-8859-1 characters. Setting i18n.commitEncoding should fix it.

-Peff

PS If you try experimenting with this, you may fall afoul of 08a94a1
   (commit/commit-tree: correct latin1 to utf-8, 2012-06-28), which will
   silently "correct" Latin1 characters into UTF-8 (when the commit
   message is expected to be in UTF-8, of course). So it actually
   _should_ just work under modern gits, but only for Latin1.