On 2015-01-20 20.46, Noralf Trønnes wrote: could it be that your "ø" is not encoded as UTF-8, but in ISO-8859-15 (or so) > $ git log -1 > commit b2a4f6abdb097c4dc092b56995a2af8e42fbea79 > Author: Noralf Tr<F8>nnes <notro@xxxxxxxxxxx> What does git config -l | grep Noralf | xxd say ? -- 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