$ gtcf --get-regexp i18n.* i18n.logoutputencoding GBK $ locale | grep LC_CTYPE LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBK $ git --version git version 1.5.3.4 And my terminal encoding is GBK $ git log --pretty=oneline msgs with chinese character displayed correctly However $ git log --pretty=format:%s the chinese character doesn't display correctly -- Ping Yin - 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