On Do, 2015-01-22 at 12:43 +0100, Tobias Getzner wrote: > Hello, > > I’ve noticed git gui and gitk seem to have problems decoding certain > unicode characters. E.g., when a commit contains the character «👍» > (thumbs up sign; U+1F44D) in UTF-8 encoding, this character will show > as «ðŸ‘» in gitk. > I’ve noticed a perhaps related glitch when the options in git gui is > shown. My committer name contains the character «ß» (latin small letter > sharp s; U+00DF). The text field in the options dialog displays this as > «ÃŸ», I suppose that some of the mojibake characters in the message might have been stripped out of the message because they are control chars. So, «👍» was rendered as «ð\x9f\x91\x8d». «ß» was rendered as «Ã\x9f». -- 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