Re: Git messes up 'ø' character

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2015, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX68b-+UsYpen+-GmNiPzNAwJAZRgxNVPo_vU9m_sPrkBg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150120212049.GA22103@peff.net>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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

True, I forgot about that setting.

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> -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.