Make git diff show UTF8 encoded characters properly

Question

I have a file with Swedish characters in it (åäö) encoded with UTF8.

If I cat the file it displays fine, but if I do git diff the special c

Answer 1

@matt and @twalberg were correct. The file wasn't actually UTF-8 encoded. Trying to figure this out wasn't helped by the fact that my terminal (hterm) can't input åäö properly (but it can display and copy/paste them)...

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in.txt > out_utf-8.txt

solved my issue