Re: Chinese characters are garbled, setting utf-8 is also garbled

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Aug 2, 2020, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20200802012802.GK6540@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEcaDL=BrqFf7bwJ0cVWK-+vUKLmuihhKr8m0_w2CCSNfA9LEw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-08-01 at 04:36:50, Nicholas Hsiang wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> There are some problems here.
> 
> I have configured the character encoding in .gitconfig:
> 
> ```yaml
> [core]
>   quotepath = false
> [gui]
>   encoding = utf-8
> [i18n]
>   commitencoding = utf-8
>   logoutputencoding = utf-8
> ```
> 
> and Git Bash configed: Options > Text > Locale: zh_CN, Character set: UTF-8
> 
> However, when executing `git pull/reset/status`, Chinese characters
> still appeared garbled.
> 
> ```bash
> Xiang@Xiang MINGW64 /c/me/front-end-note (master)
> $ git reset --hard df576e2
> HEAD is now at df576e2 doc: 琛ュ厖 ES5 缁ф壙
> ```

Since this is a Windows issue, you'd be better off reporting this at the Git for Windows issue tracker at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/. As far as what I've seen in your email, the characters do appear to be in Chinese, although since I don't speak or read that language, I don't know whether they make any sense or are garbled.

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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US