On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Noralf Trønnes <notro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Den 20.01.2015 21:07, skrev Torsten Bögershausen: >> >> 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 ? >> > $ git config -l | grep Noralf | xxd > 0000000: 7573 6572 2e6e 616d 653d 4e6f 7261 6c66 user.name=Noralf > 0000010: 2054 72f8 6e6e 6573 0a Tr.nnes. > > $ file ~/.gitconfig > /home/pi/.gitconfig: ISO-8859 text What's happened here is that: 1. You've authored your commit in ISO-8859-1 2. Git itself has no place for the encoding of the author name in the commit object format 3. git-format-patch has a --compose-encoding which I think would sort this out if you set it to ISO-8859-1, but it defaults to UTF-8 4. Your patch is actually a ISO-8859-1 byte sequence, but is advertised as UTF-8 5. You end up with a screwed-up commit You could work around this, but I suggest just joining the 21st century and working exclusively in UTF-8, it makes things much easier, speaking as someone with 3x more non-ASCII characters their his name than you :) -- 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