Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:42:14PM +0100, René Haber wrote: > > > I'm running git 1.7.9.2 from Fink Project on MacOS X 10.6. > > The gitconfig in hex is attached. > > Hmm, looks like pretty standard utf8: > > 0000020: 6d65 203d 2052 656e c3a9 2048 6162 6572 me = Ren.. Haber > > and the same thing I used in my tests. I tried repeating the test with > v1.7.9.2 on OS X (although my test box is 10.7), and couldn't replicate > it. > > Can you show us the commit that causes the problem, as printed by "git > cat-file commit $commit | xxd"? I just want to double-check that there > are no odd bytes there. > > Also, what happens if you do: > > sh -c ' > . /sw/lib/git-core/git-sh-setup > get_author_ident_from_commit $commit > ' > > (my theory is that this is the underlying problem in the rebase, and > should show the bug; by narrowing it down, it should make testing a lot > simpler). Hmmm... one place where I have read about this strange "René" -> "Rene'" conversion is when terminal (console) cannot display unicode, and tries to show it using ASCII: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9430419/46058 But it should not matter if we are writing to file, isn't it? -- Jakub Narębski -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html