On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:45:46PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > 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 :) So how exactly do you fix this using UTF-8? Git is exporting a UTF-8 "From:" line so it thinks the character is correct, but it's not creating something properly here. confused, greg k-h -- 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