On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:45:46PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> What's happened here is that: >> >> 1. You've authored your commit in ISO-8859-1 >> 2. Git itself has no place for the encoding of the author name in the >> commit object format > > Is (2) right? The "encoding" header in a commit object should apply not > just to the commit message, but also to the author (and committer) name. > > I think the real problem is simply that it defaults to UTF-8, but he is > giving it iso-8859-1 characters. Setting i18n.commitEncoding should fix > it.
True, I forgot about that setting. > -Peff > > PS If you try experimenting with this, you may fall afoul of 08a94a1 > (commit/commit-tree: correct latin1 to utf-8, 2012-06-28), which will > silently "correct" Latin1 characters into UTF-8 (when the commit > message is expected to be in UTF-8, of course). So it actually > _should_ just work under modern gits, but only for Latin1. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
