On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:33 AM Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > It would be helpful, to pipe the result into xxd: > git symbolic-ref --short HEAD | xxd > And then see, if there is any garbling inside or outside of Git ? Here's what I get: $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD | xxd 00000000: e6b5 8be8 af95 2de5 8a0a ......-... $ LANG=C git symbolic-ref --short HEAD | xxd 00000000: e6b5 8be8 af95 2de5 8aa0 2de5 a29e e58a ......-...-..... 00000010: a02d e58a a02d e5a2 9ee5 8aa0 0a .-...-.......