[BUG] Mojibake in git gui and gitk for certain unicode chars

Hello, I’ve noticed git gui and gitk seem to have problems decoding certain unicode characters. E.g., when a commit contains the character «» (thumbs up sign; U+1F44D) in UTF-8 encoding, this character will show as «ðŸ‘» in gitk. git gui also displays it using the same sequence. When trying to

Re: [BUG] Mojibake in git gui and gitk for certain unicode chars

On Do, 2015-01-22 at 12:43 +0100, Tobias Getzner wrote: Hello, I’ve noticed git gui and gitk seem to have problems decoding certain unicode characters. E.g., when a commit contains the character «» (thumbs up sign; U+1F44D) in UTF-8 encoding, this character will show as «ðŸ‘» in gitk.