Hallo Johannes, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > @@ -127,6 +128,15 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > while (fgets(comment, sizeof(comment), stdin) != NULL) > add_buffer(&buffer, &size, "%s", comment); > > + /* And check the encoding */ > + buffer[size] = '\0'; > + if (!strcmp(git_commit_encoding, "utf-8") && !is_utf8(buffer)) { Maybe you could be more generous here. E.g. if ((!strcasecmp(git_commit_encoding, "utf-8") || !strcasecmp(git_commit_encoding, "utf8")) && !is_utf8(buffer)) Junio suggested to make this check if i18n.commitEncoding is empty. I didn't check the code to see if this case is included. Gruessle Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König http://www.google.com/search?q=2+to+the+power+of+12 - 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