# A bug in gitview

1 messages from 2009-11-07 to 2009-11-07. Participants: Rafał Mużyło.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21523

## Rafał Mużyło, 2009-11-07 20:50

Subject: A bug in gitview
Message-ID: <20091107205055.GA2551@blackspire>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091107205055.GA2551%40blackspire

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When I modified a html file, that was not utf-8
encoded and commited the changes, if I select
that particular commit in gitview, the content
isn't shown, an error is printed instead:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gitview", line 1002, in _treeview_cursor_cb
    self.message_buffer.set_text(unicode(message, self.encoding).encode('utf-8'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 4723: 
unexpected code byte:

That's of course correct, it's not utf8.
'git diff' simply shows that as hex values,
there's probably a way to do the same for
gitview.

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