On 12/03/20 09:31PM, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Luke Bonanomi <lbonanomi@xxxxxxxxx> > > This addresses the issue where Git for Windows asks the user for a > password, no credential helper is available, and then Git fails to pick > up non-ASCII characters from the Git GUI helper. > > This can be verified e.g. via > > echo host=http://abc.com | > git -c credential.helper= credential fill > > and then pasting some umlauts. > > The underlying reason is that Git for Windows tries to communicate using > the UTF-8 encoding no matter what the actual current code page is. So > let's indulge Git for Windows and do use that encoding. > > This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2215 > > Signed-off-by: Luke Bonanomi <lbonanomi@xxxxxxxxx> > Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Merged. Thanks all. -- Regards, Pratyush Yadav