$ gtcf --get-regexp i18n.* i18n.logoutputencoding GBK $ locale | grep LC_CTYPE LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBK $ git --version git version 1.5.3.4
And my terminal encoding is GBK
$ git log --pretty=oneline msgs with chinese character displayed correctly
However $ git log --pretty=format:%s the chinese character doesn't display correctly
-- Ping Yin