On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Noralf Trønnes <notro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Den 20.01.2015 22:26, skrev Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: > >> 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". >> > > Yes: > $ echo Noralf Trønnes | xxd > 0000000: 4e6f 7261 6c66 2054 72f8 6e6e 6573 0a Noralf Tr.nnes. > > Is there a command I can run that shows that I'm using ISO-8859-1 ? > I need something to google with, my previous search only gave locale stuff, > which seems fine. What does this give you, this is UTF-8. $ echo git commit --author="Noralf Trønnes <notro@xxxxxxxxxxx>" | xxd 0000000: 6769 7420 636f 6d6d 6974 202d 2d61 7574 git commit --aut 0000010: 686f 723d 4e6f 7261 6c66 2054 72c3 b86e hor=Noralf Tr..n 0000020: 6e65 7320 3c6e 6f74 726f 4074 726f 6e6e nes <notro@tronn 0000030: 6573 2e6f 7267 3e0a es.org>. To see if you're using UTF-8 just look at the codepoints for the non-ASCII characters you're using and check if they're valid UTF-8. E.g. you can check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98#Computers Which shows you that the UTF-8 hex version is C3 B8, but the Latin-1 is F8, you're emitting F8, I'm emitting 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