From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:07:33 GMT Subject: Re: Git messes up 'ø' character Message-ID: <54BEB585.2030902@web.de> In-Reply-To: <54BEB08D.9090905@tronnes.org> On 2015-01-20 20.46, Noralf Trønnes wrote: could it be that your "ø" is not encoded as UTF-8, but in ISO-8859-15 (or so) > $ git log -1 > commit b2a4f6abdb097c4dc092b56995a2af8e42fbea79 > Author: Noralf Trnnes What does git config -l | grep Noralf | xxd say ?