[PATCH] git-gui--askpass: coerce answers to UTF-8 on Windows

From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2020, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <pull.578.git.1583954676691.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Luke Bonanomi <lbonanomi@gmail.com>

This addresses the issue where Git for Windows asks the user for a password, no credential helper is available, and then Git fails to pick up non-ASCII characters from the Git GUI helper.

This can be verified e.g. via

	echo host=http://abc.com |
	git -c credential.helper= credential fill

and then pasting some umlauts.

The underlying reason is that Git for Windows tries to communicate using the UTF-8 encoding no matter what the actual current code page is. So let's indulge Git for Windows and do use that encoding.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2215

Signed-off-by: Luke Bonanomi <lbonanomi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
    Fix git-gui--askpass on Windows
    
    Windows has this odd thing where there is an active code page (somewhat
    like LC_CTYPE) and there is no real UTF-8 code page. So we need to help 
    git-gui--askpass along a bit to be of use when asking for credentials.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-578%2Fdscho%2Fgit-gui--askpass-utf-8-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-578/dscho/git-gui--askpass-utf-8-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/578

 git-gui--askpass | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git-gui--askpass b/git-gui--askpass
index 4277f30c411..b0704e6d91e 100755
--- a/git-gui--askpass
+++ b/git-gui--askpass
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ proc finish {} {
 		}
 	}
 
+	# On Windows, force the encoding to UTF-8: it is what `git.exe` expects
+		if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows}} {
+		set ::answer [encoding convertto utf-8 $::answer]
+	}
+
 	puts $::answer
 	set ::rc 0
 }

base-commit: 63a58457e094c9c9bbf562b872009d32f1f88133

-- 
gitgitgadget