Convert author's name from the UTF-8 (or any other) encoding in load_last_commit function the same way commit message is converted. Amending commits in git-gui without such conversion breaks UTF-8 strings. For example, "\305\201ukasz" (as written by git cat-file) becomes "\303\205\302\201ukasz" in an amended commit. Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-gui/lib/commit.tcl | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl index 83620b7cb..f820c24bf 100644 --- a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl +++ b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl @@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ You are currently in the middle of a merge that has not been fully completed. Y lappend parents [string range $line 7 end] } elseif {[string match {encoding *} $line]} { set enc [string tolower [string range $line 9 end]] - } elseif {[regexp "author (.*)\\s<(.*)>\\s(\\d.*$)" $line all name email time]} { - set commit_author [list name $name email $email date $time] - } + } elseif {[regexp "author (.*)\\s<(.*)>\\s(\\d.*$)" $line all name email time]} { } } set msg [read $fd] close $fd @@ -44,7 +42,9 @@ You are currently in the middle of a merge that has not been fully completed. Y set enc [tcl_encoding $enc] if {$enc ne {}} { set msg [encoding convertfrom $enc $msg] + set name [encoding convertfrom $enc $name] } + set commit_author [list name $name email $email date $time] set msg [string trim $msg] } err]} { error_popup [strcat [mc "Error loading commit data for amend:"] "\n\n$err"] -- 2.11.0