On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Noralf Trønnes <notro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Den 20.01.2015 21:45, skrev Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: > >> 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 :) >> > > Ok, then the question is: How do I switch to UTF-8? > > To me it seems I'm already using it: > $ locale charmap > UTF-8 Your .gitconfig has an ISO-8859-1 string, from an earlier mail of yours: > $ 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. On a system configured for UTF-8 this would be: $ echo Noralf Trønnes | xxd 0000000: 4e6f 7261 6c66 2054 72c3 b86e 6e65 730a Noralf Tr..nnes. Note the "f8" v.s. "c3 b8". -- 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