Set encoding to utf-8 for file descriptors used to receive data from git commands. With encoding on the file descriptor set to "binary" Tcl (8.6 in my case) does double conversion which breaks e.g. author name in amended commits. For example "\305\201ukasz" (as written by git cat-file) becomes "\303\205\302\201ukasz". Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-gui/lib/commit.tcl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) So, this is the second attempt to draw some attention to this patch, since the first one has somewhat failed. https://marc.info/?l=git&m=150331641702091&w=2 diff --git a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl index 83620b7cb..bcb6499a0 100644 --- a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl +++ b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ You are currently in the middle of a merge that has not been fully completed. Y set parents [list] if {[catch { set fd [git_read cat-file commit $curHEAD] - fconfigure $fd -encoding binary -translation lf + fconfigure $fd -encoding utf-8 -translation lf # By default commits are assumed to be in utf-8 set enc utf-8 while {[gets $fd line] > 0} { -- 2.11.0
