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Git Gui 0.20 messes up UTF-8 author names when amending a commit

Subject: Git Gui 0.20 messes up UTF-8 author names when amending a commit

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Roessner Silvester SGD AS-ER/QMM1 *· Jun 29, 2016, 05:56 UTC · lore
Hi,

first I want to thank all involved in developing git. It is really one of the - no! - it is the greatest tool I ever worked with!

So I want to help improving it at least with this bug report.
Since git version 2.9.0 git git-gui messes up my author name
- which contains UTF-8 characters: Silvester Rößner -
when I amend a commit.
When I do the same with git-bash it's all ok.
git log after first amend:
    $ git log
    commit 8ac8115c3af04bd8f5171452141398b0cfb57f87
    Author: Silvester Rö�ner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>
    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:46 2016 +0200
        asdf
    commit ae34f23a9a3d7f673ad3ed57dbea5af302d4f0c1
    Author: Silvester Rößner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>
    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:21 2016 +0200
    test
git log after second amend:
    $ git log
    commit 9240372e8e7336a2c523f27a75b3ac4e07315039
    Author: Silvester R�¶�?ner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>
    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:46 2016 +0200
        asdf
    commit ae34f23a9a3d7f673ad3ed57dbea5af302d4f0c1
    Author: Silvester Rößner <silvester.roessner@bosch.com>
    Date:   Wed Jun 29 07:31:21 2016 +0200
        test
To reproduce the bug
    1. create an empty repo,
    2. set up the author name to "Silvester Rößner"
    3. commit a file with git gui
    4. amend the commit with git gui
I use this version
    git-gui version 0.20.GITGUI
    git version 2.9.0.windows.1
    Tcl/Tk version 8.6.5
The versions I used before just work great!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
Silvester Rößner

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