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At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic.
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- The pathnames recorded in the index and in the tree objects
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are treated as uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes.
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What readdir(2) returns are what are recorded and compared
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with the data git keeps track of, which in turn are expected
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to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such
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thing as pathname encoding translation.
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- The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequence
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of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core
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level.
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- The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequence of non-NUL
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bytes.
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Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded
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in UTF-8, both the core and git Porcelain are designed not to
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force UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular
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project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git
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does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in
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mind.
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. `git-commit-tree` (hence, `git-commit` which uses it) issues
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an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
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like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your
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project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to
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have core.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this:
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------------
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[core]
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commitencoding = ISO-8859-1
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Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
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of `core.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to
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help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
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implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
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. `git-log`, `git-show` and friends looks at the `encoding`
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header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log
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message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can
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specify the desired output encoding with
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`core.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
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------------
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[core]
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logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1
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If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
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`core.commitencoding` is used instead.
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Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
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message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit
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object level, because re-coding to UTF-8 is not necessarily a
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reversible operation.
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