From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Previously, we would have obtained the user name encoded in whatever the
current code page is.

Note: the "user name" here does not denote the full name but instead the
short logon name.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 9b6d2400e1..8526876262 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1946,13 +1946,19 @@ struct passwd *getpwuid(int uid)
        static unsigned initialized;
        static char user_name[100];
        static struct passwd *p;
+       wchar_t buf[100];
        DWORD len;
 
        if (initialized)
                return p;
 
-       len = sizeof(user_name);
-       if (!GetUserName(user_name, &len)) {
+       len = sizeof(buf);
+       if (!GetUserNameW(buf, &len)) {
+               initialized = 1;
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       if (xwcstoutf(user_name, buf, sizeof(user_name)) < 0) {
                initialized = 1;
                return NULL;
        }
-- 
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