Hello. Working with Git for Windows on git gui I noticed an issue on reading initial message to git gui message prompt. Steps to reproduce: git init . echo 'a' > a && git add . && git commit -m 'added A' git checkout -b devel echo 'b' > b && git add . && git commit -m 'added B (ęóąśłżźćń)' echo 'bbb' >> b && git add . && git commit -m 'changed B (żźćńąśłóę)' git checkout master git merge --squash devel after above commands I run git gui where I get initial message with invalid encoding. I described it more widely on github: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/664#issuecomment-187664072. I prepared a fix on https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/665. Before I send a patch based on git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git may I ask you to review my changes? I also attach them to this message below. diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh index 1834f00..5771973 100755 --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh @@ -1599,11 +1599,13 @@ proc run_prepare_commit_msg_hook {} { if {[file isfile [gitdir MERGE_MSG]]} { set pcm_source "merge" set fd_mm [open [gitdir MERGE_MSG] r] + fconfigure $fd_mm -encoding utf-8 puts -nonewline $fd_pcm [read $fd_mm] close $fd_mm } elseif {[file isfile [gitdir SQUASH_MSG]]} { set pcm_source "squash" set fd_sm [open [gitdir SQUASH_MSG] r] + fconfigure $fd_sm -encoding utf-8 puts -nonewline $fd_pcm [read $fd_sm] close $fd_sm } else { --- Yours sincerely, Jarek Z. -- 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